Henschen v. O'Bannon

The plaintiffs, who were millers and flour merchants, brought their action to recover of defendant the price of twenty-five barrels of flour, which they sold to him on the 28th day of December, 1867. Defendant by an amended answer pleaded'a discharge in bankruptcy, to which plaintiffs replied that the debt sued for was fraudulently contracted by defendant, and was therefore excepted from the discharge pleaded in the answer. Upon this issue there was a trial before a jury and a verdict was rendered for the plaintiffs, and the cause has been brought here for review by appeal.

There was evidence…