Lester v. . Zachary

In declaring that evidence of the inadequacy of the consideration of the bond was properly received on trial, it is not intended by the Court to countenance, in the most distant manner, an idea that the bond, for that cause, is invalid. The law is too well settled to the contrary to permit that point to be even doubted; for if a bond is good without any consideration, inadequacy of consideration cannot vitiate it. But where the contest is whether the bond was ever made, or, if formally made, whether under such circumstances of fraud and imposition as to render it void in law, inadequacy of…