Brown v. Drake

When this case was here before (101 Ga. 130), it was held, that the pleas filed by the defendant set up matters which, if established by competent evidence, constituted a good defense to the action, and it was therefore erroneous to strike such pleas on general demurrer. Upon the trial the only evidence offered was in support of that plea which alleged an agreement between the defendant and the company of which the plaintiff was receiver, under the terms of which the company was to furnish him cottonseed meal and hulls in exchange for cotton*180seed and to sell him farm fertilizers at a given…