Paxton v. Vincennes Manufacturing Co.

The appellant, Thomas R. Paxton, receiver of the Vincennes National Bank, brought his action against the appellee in the Knox Circuit Court, upon a promissory note made by the appellee to said bank, dated May 23, 1885, upon which as shown by the complaint fifteen hundred dollars had been paid. Before the issues were fully formed the venue was *254changed to the court below. There was an answer in two paragraphs, the first being a plea of payment. In the second paragraph, purporting to be a counterclaim, a demurrer to which was overruled in the court below, the appellee admitted its execution of…