McQuaid v. Baughman

Mr. Justice F. A. Smith

delivered the opinion of the court.

It is urged on behalf of plaintiff in error, plaintiff below, that different instruments executed as evidence of one transaction at the same time or different times, must be .construed as a single instrument, and that where a contract is made upon an ample consideration and is afterward modified by separate instruments, the law constitutes it one contract, and the consideration of the original contract applies to and is sufficient for the modification.

These with other legal principles are urged by the plaintiff in error and are…