Cook & Bernheimer Co. v. Hagedorn

Appellant brought this action upon a check, payable to its order for the sum of $548.24, dated July 10, 1917, and drawn by appellee on the American Trust Company of South Bend, Indiana. The complaint is in a single paragraph with the usual allegations for such an action, and was answered by a general denial. Appellee also filed two paragraphs of set-off, designated as first and second, each of which was subsequently amended. The said first paragraph of set-off is based on an alleged breach of an oral agreement, by which appellee claims to have purchased twenty-five barrels of whisky of…