Clise v. Freeborn

—As defenses to the action defendant pleaded, that the note was given without consideration, and that a judgment had been rendered against him upon said note, in a proceeding of garnishment upon a judgment before rendered against the original payee of the note, George Snyder. In avoidance of this last defense, both in a replication and at the trial, the plaintiff, admitting the same, set up the discharge of Snyder in bankruptcy. The evidence offered to establish this discharge was not admitted. The jury were required, upon the motion of defendant, as a special verdict, to answer whether the…