Swift v. Roach.

L. R. Roach, appellee herein, sued J. B. Swift and A. J. Clearman, appellants herein, to recover on three promissory notes, aggregating $2,000, executed by appellants to C. P. Shaffer and by him assigned. to appellee, and to foreclose a mortgage lien on one Avery threshing machine, separator, complete, and one Avery motor cultivator. Appellants pleaded a total failure of consideration for the notes sued on and an offer to return the property, and also that said engine (called motor cultivator in the contract) and said separator would not operate, and could not be made to operate efficiently,…