Kennard v. Gustine

The defendant, sued as the maker of a note for five hundred dollars, with ten per cent interest from its maturity until paid, first answered generally, and pleaded failure of consideration, setting up a reconventional demand amounting to four hundred dollars. It appears, that having subsequently purchased a note drawn by one Boggs, payable 'to one K. A. Martin, or bearer, of the amount of $573 37, upon which the plaintiff had endorsed his name, said defendant obtained leave to file an amended answer, in which he sets up said note in compensation of the plaintiff’s claim, alleging that the…