Cowger v. Gordon

Debt upon a writing obligatory for the payment of 100 dollars. Plea, failure of consideration. Demurrer to the plea; demurrer sustained; and final judgment for the plaintiff.

The plea avers, that the consideration on which the writing obligatory is founded was a part of the difference in value, which Cowger undertook to pay the Gordons in an exchange of two certain half quarter sections of laird, which were exchanged between them, containing 80 acres each, &c.; the Gordons, at the time of the exchange, for the purpose of inducing Cowger to make the exchange, and also pay the differ*111ence in…