15 N.M. 95 | N.M. | 1909
OPINION OP THE COURT.
Smith, sued Street, her complaint setting up two causes of action. The first is for a balance of seven hundred dollars on five notes of two hundred dollars each, the second for a balance of seven hundred dollars alleged to be due on an original indebtedness of one thousand dollars with interest, on the purchase of certain furniture and fixtures, after deducting four hundred dollars paid thereon. The pleadings do not indicate other than that the two causes of action are distinct transactions totally disconnected with each other. The answer pleads failure of consideration to the notes. To the second cause of action no defense is pleaded unless the following from the answer constitutes such:
• It is contended, however, that the complaint was treated as denied in the r trial below and the case thus within Keator Lumber Co. v. Thompson, 144 U. S. 434. The condition of the record, to be presently referred to, leaves us without full information on this point. This being asserted however, we prefer to rest our decision upon further grounds: