58 Fla. 283 | Fla. | 1909
On the 2nd of March, 1908, the plaintiff, York Manufacturing Company, a corporation, filed the following declaration against the defendants Hyer and Fritter, in the Circuit Court 'of Escambia County: “York Manufacturing Company, a corporation, by Pattillo Campbell, its attorney, sues J. W. Hyer and W. C. Fritter for money payable by the defendants to the plaintiff for the said defendants, on the 20th day of May, 1907, by their promissory notes, now overdue, promised to pay to the plaintiff $600.00 three months after date and $600.00 six months after date, with interest from date of said notes at 6 % per annum until paid, with all cost of collection including 10 % attorney’s fees, but did not pay the same. Wherefore the plaintiff sues and claims $2500.00 damages.”
The first of said notes is as follows:
“$600.00 Pensacola, Fla., May 20th, 1907.
Three months after date we or either of us promise to pay to the order of York Manufacturing Co., York, Pa. Six Hundred & No-100........................Dollars, at Pensacola, Fla.,
Without defalcation, for value received. With interest from date at the rate of six per cent, per annum until paid, with all costs of collection including ten per cent attorney’s fees. Waiving the right of all valuation, stay and exemption law.
(Signed) J. W. Hyer.
(Signed) W. C. Fritter.
By J. C. Hicks, Atty in Fact.”
The second note is like the first except that it is payable six months after' date.'
The plaintiff filed the following replication to the plea:
“1. That the defendants accepted without protest or objection the ice machinery mentioned in said plea and paid $600. on account of the purchase price thereof, and executed their notes for the balance; that six months
The defendants demurred to this replication on the following grounds: “1. That the facts set forth in the said replication, to-wit: That the defendants accepted, without protest or objection, the ice plant mentioned and paid $600.00 upon the purchase price thereof, and executed their note for the balance, and that six months thereafter voluntarily paid a portion of their said notes, and executed a new note for the balance, does not constitute a waiver of the defendants’ right to a claim for damages for failure to ship the said ice machinery by the time mentioned in the contract of sale.
2. It sets forth no defense to the defendants’ plea.”
The Circuit Judge overruled this demurrer and allowed the defendants until the 16th of January, 1909, to plead further. On the 18th of January, 1909, the defendants refusing to plead further the judge entered a default against them for their failure and refusal to plead, and ordered a judgment against them in favor of the plaintiff. The original notes sued on were produced and filed in. evidence and a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff for $1151.56. The case is here on writ of error from this judgment.
The only error assigned is that the Circuit Judge erred in overruling defendants’ demurrer to plaintiff’s replication. The demurrer of course reaches back to any substantial defect in the plea, and it is urged here that the plea is faulty. Without going into the merits of the plea we think the facts stated in the replication show that the defense set up in the plea is unavailing. The defendants below had every opportunity before the execution of the
The judgment of the court below is affirmed.