Jones v. Curtis

This suit was filed in the circuit court of Quitman county by the plaintiff, John P. Jones, against the defendant, John Z. Curtis, on a dishonored check for three hundred dollars and a promissory note for one hundred and forty-five dollars both given by the defendant to the plaintiff on December 27, 1920, as a part of one transaction. The defendant filed a plea of the general issue and a special plea setting up a failure of consideration, and at the trial there was a verdict and judgment for the defendant, from which this appeal was prosecuted.

It appears from the testimony that in the early…