Hickman v. Galveston Dry Goods Co.

GILL, Chief Justice.

The Galveston Dry Goods Company, a corporation, brought this suit to recover upon two promissory notes each for the sum of $915.50, executed, delivered and payable to it by Leo and J. Bergman and M. T. Hickman, Jr.

The defendant Hickman, among other things, pleaded in defense that the consideration of the two notes was illegal because it was a part of the entire amount due to the plaintiff by Leo Bergman, who was a defendant in bankruptcy and who, after he had been so adjudged, entered into a composition with his creditors to settle at 40 percent of his indebtedness to…