Alamosa Industrial Stores Co. v. Hill
Alamosa Industrial Stores Co. v. Hill
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error, Stores Company, payee, brought this action against the defendant in error, Hill, maker of a promissory note. A copy of the note is set'out in the complaint. The answer admitted execution and delivery. There are two separate affirmative defenses: (1) That the note was procured as the result of fraudulent representations made by the plaintiff’s agent to the defendant; (2) Failure of consideration. The replication contains.
This contract was signed by the defendant and the plaintiff’s agent. The record is not entirely clear upon the point, but it seems that neither party offered or tendered any evidence, but each filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings. The court sustained defendant’s motion and dismissed the action, and the plaintiff is here with this writ.
The parties discuss a number of questions that are not material upon this review. The plaintiff is wrong in asserting that the new matter in the replication is not denied. It is deemed denied by our Code. The defendant is wrong in assuming that there is no denial of the affirmative defenses in the answer. They are denied. It is pertinent to observe, however, that in the new matter pleaded in the replication the language above quoted from the subscription contract is in the exact words of a contract considered in Canon City, etc. Co. v. McInerney, 71 Colo. 492, 208 Pac. 457, of which the court said that it put the party signing the same upon inquiry as to the agent’s authority, and he accepts the agent’s statements of such authority at his peril, and if the statements of the agent made are not in accord with the contract, and the party signing the contract acted upon them to his injury, he must abide the result of his negligence in not observing the warning contained in the contract itself. If, upon a new trial, it
This was the situation as we read the record. The defendant admitted execution of the promissory note, delivery, maturity and non-payment. He set up two separate affirmative defenses in his answer, which the replication denied. Neither party offering any evidence, the plaintiff was entitled to a judgment on the pleadings. The judgment in defendant’s favor was wrong. It is, therefore, reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.
Mr. Chief Justice Teller and Mr. Justice Sheafor concur.
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