Hough v. Gage

Citations

• 74 Ill. 257

Syllabus

<p>1. Failure of consideration—plea of—its requisites. A plea of total failure of consideration must show all the elements entering into the consideration, and a failure of each and every part of it distinctly averred with as much precision as the allegations of a declaration.</p> <p>2. A plea that the consideration of a note was the sale of an interest in a certain patent right, which has wholly failed, the patent being void, because the result therein claimed to be accomplished could not be accomplished, is bad on demurrer as failing to show what the result claimed to be accomplished was, and wherein it had failed.</p>