Bass v. Geiger

Mrs. M. A. Geiger, a widow, instituted an action at law against Ross Graves, W. C. Bass and R. T. Butler upon a joint and several promissory note alleged to have been executed by all of the defendants to the order of the plaintiff. Ross Graves, one of the defendants, filed a plea to the effect that he had been “duly discharged from bankruptpy after having *313paid to his creditors twenty-five per cent, on a composition which was duly accepted and that the plaintiff’s claim wras included in said composition.” W. C. Bass and R. T. Butler filed-two pleas to- which the plaintiff interposed a demurrer…