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admitting that the defendant Seymour entered into a contract with the plaintiff for the purchase and delivery of rum as stated in said contract, and admit that the prices and payments as set out in said contract were true; that the plaintiff undertook to carry out the terms of the contract and delivered about one-half of the first shipment, and then would deliver no more, and informed the defendants that he would set the contract aside on the grround of fraud, although the defendants urged him to continue under the contract and agrreed to pay him in advance; that the agreement was entered into in good faith on their part with the knowledge and assent of the plaintiff, he knowing full well the terms and conditions. They deny all allegations of fraud and misrepresentation, deny that the contract was not read to the said plaintiff, but aver that the contract while being prepared was carefully read to the said pla-intiff and he was asked if it was what he wanted, to which he answered -yes." They further allege that the said plaintiff showed the contract to others after it was prepared, who read it, and that the plaintiff said that the contract was all right and would enable him to pay his debts. They deny that the said plaintiff did not know the terms and conditions and allege that he knew the contents and acquiesced therein. They deny that the notes mentioned in the contract were gambling debts, contracted at a gaming table, and aver that the notes were for money loaned by the defendant Seymour, or by his partner (Pratt), and had no reference. to, or connection with, gambling, but were cash loans, which the plaintiff agreed in said contract to pay by giving 4,000 gallons of old rum. They further deny all allegations in the complaint of fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, and all allegations in the bill of complaint referring to the debt of the said Andrade contained in the said notes, as being gambling debts.
This cause came on for trial before the Honorable H. A. Gudger, judge of the Circuit Court of the Second judicial Circuit, both parties being represented and witnesses were sworn and evidence heard by the court. The Court found the questions of conspiracy, deception and fraud, as well as the question of the debts secured being gambling debts, were

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