Swift v. . Etheridge

Action upon note, dated at Harbinger, N.C. 13 May, 1922, executed by defendant, payable to order of plaintiff, for value received in fertilizers. Execution and delivery of the note is submitted in the answer.

As a defense to plaintiff's cause of action upon said note, defendant, in his answer, says "that the note set out in the complaint is without consideration; that the fertilizers which defendant purchased of the plaintiff, Swift Company, and its agent set out above, is worthless; that the defendant purchased it, had his lands well prepared for potatoes, had obtained good seed potatoes and…