Butler & Co. v. McCall

46 S.E. 647, 119 Ga. 503, 1904 Ga. LEXIS 253

• Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
• Decided: February 13, 1904
• Status: Published

Opinion

Candler, J.

The consideration of a contract is always open to inquiry in a suit for its enforcement. The answer of the defendants as amended, setting up that the note sued on was for the purchase-price of certain sawmill timber, that part of the land conveyed had no timber on it at all, that as to other portions a paramount outstanding title existed in other parties, and that the defendants had never been in possession thereof, was good as a plea of failure of consideration, and should not have been stricken on demurrer.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur, except Simmons, C. J., absent.