Anderson v. Carothers

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

The appellants sued upon a promissory note. The respondents answered, denying the responsibility of the firm in the execution of the note, and set up-certain facts constituting a counter-claim, to-wit: that the defendants were indebted to them for a balance due upon a sale of sheep made by them to the defendants; that the defendants had given to the plaintiffs a bill of sale of 1900 head of sheep in August, 1893, said sheep then being at Trevor, Wisconsin; that the plaintiffs took possession of said sheep thereunder as security for the…