Ragsdale v. Bothman

This is an action upon certain promissory notes executed and delivered by Laura A. Bothman and John Bothman to Ragsdale & Company, indorsed to the plaintiff. The plaintiff’s complaint is substantially the ordinary one in such case. In his answer, defendant John Bothman admitted the execution of the notes and nonpayment but pleaded that he had been absolved from payment by reason of his discharge in bankruptcy. Plaintiff replied alleging that the obligations sued upon were expressly excepted from the operation of the discharge for the reason that they were not scheduled as liabilities by the…