McMillan v. Croft

Tbe appellee sued the appellant upon a note made by tbe latter, payable to tbe former. There are in tbe note no words of negotiability, and there is no indorsement upon it.

At tbe spring term, 1845, of tbe district court, the defendant answered; and at the fall term thereafter, repeated in substance the same answer; containing a general denial, and specially denying tbe interest of the plaintiff in tbe note sued on; averring that the plaintiff bad availed himself of the bankrupt law of tbe United States, “whereby the note aforesaid, if any such existed, has become the property of a certain…