Donovan v. Johnson

This action was brought to foreclose a mortgage upon a threshing machine securing a note for $751 and interest. With it were joined a cause of action upon another note, and a third cause of action upon an account. The defendant, answering, admitted the execution and delivery of the notes and the running of an account and pleaded payment thereof. He further alleged that the note upon which the first cause of action was predicated was given for a portion of the purchase' price of a threshing machine, and alleged failure of consideration in that the machine was unsuitable for the purposes for…