Huston v. Williams

The plaintiff declared in an action of debt upon an instrument in writing, which is described in the declaration as a “writing obligatory, signed with their hands and sealed with their seals.” The defendants,, after craving oyer, demurred to the declaration. The Court overruled the demurrer, and the defendants, by leave of the Court, withdrew it an.d pleaded to the merits. The plea of the defendants is a plea of “fraud, covin, and false representation,” in these general terms, without stating the special circumstances, and without averring whether the “fraud, covin, and false representation,”…