17 Ga. App. 579 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1916
The suit was for an unpaid balance on a promissory note given the plaintiff by the defendant for commercial fertilizers. It appeared that the note was executed on May 38, 1913, for $134.36, and was to become due on October 1, 1913. There was a credit on it of $60, dated October 11, 1913. The suit was brought on December 3, 1914. The defendant in his answer pleaded a total failure of consideration, and alleged in substance the following facts: that on or about February 33, 1913, he purchased the fertilizers from the plaintiff for the consideration expressed in the note, and that the plaintiff agreed to deliver the fertilizers at the railroad station of the defendant within ten. days after the order was given; that the defendant returned to his home and prepared his land for the fertilizers, in order to make a crop thereon, and waited fourteen days for the plaintiff to make delivery, and that finally the plaintiff delivered the fertilizers, twelve days later than the time agreed upon; that the defendant bought the fertilizers for the purpose of using them in growing cotton, which defendant proposed to plant upon eighteen acres of land; that the customary and necessary way to prepare such land for growing cotton is to place the fertilizers in the ground and allow them to remain there from two to three weeks, so that the rain can fall thereon and get the land thoroughly prepared for the reception of the cottonseed, but that, because of the delay of the plain
The court did not err in striking the answer and directing the verdict. The ruling stated in the headnote does not require elaboration. . Judgment affirmed.