Rahilly v. O'Laughlin

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error brought action in the United States District Court of North Dakota, Southeastern Division, in December, 1922, against Michael O’Laughlin, on 14 promissory notes given by said O’Laughlin to him, dated September 30, 1896, in the sum of $1,000 each, and due one year after date. The defendant in said action, Michael O’Langhlin, who since said trial is deceased, in defense to the same claimed that the statute of limitations had run, and that in any event the debt had been wiped out by a proceeding in bankruptcy in the year 1902, wherein defendant was…