Baker Ice Mach. Co. v. Hebert

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, as plaintiff below, brought this action to recover on certain promissory notes amounting in the aggregate to approximately $7,000. The execution of the notes and their nonpayment was admitted by defendant, but it asked a set-off by virtue of an alleged guarantee of payment of certain accounts purchased by it with other property of plaintiff’s testate, and for which certain promissory notes were then given, the notes in question being renewals of those originally given. The total accounts so claimed to have been guaranteed amount in 'the aggregate to…