Bauer v. Heaton

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county, reversing a judgment of the Municipal Court of Cincinnati.

The action was upon an open account. The only defense pleaded was a discharge in bankruptcy. The plaintiff denied the granting of this discharge generally, and specifically denied that, on account of the failure to give him notice, it operated as a bar to an action on this debt.

At the trial, after the defendant had testified on direct examination as to the granting of the discharge in bankruptcy, and the discharge had been introduced in evidence, and…