Schroeder v. Frey

The answers admitted the sale and delivery and the amount unpaid upon the price of the goods. But the right of the plaintiffs to recover that price was resisted chiefly on the ground of bankrupt discharges is*72sued to each of the defendants under the authority of the bankrupt laws of the United States. The regularity of the proceedings in whicli these discharges were issued was not impeached. But it was alleged in the reply that the plaintiffs had been induced to part with the goods by reason of false and fraudulent representations made to them prior to the sales and deliveries made; and…