Case ID: dc_1/html/0543-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "the CouRT,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Banks, an Insolvent, for the use of his Trustee, v. George & A. King.
    In an action hy an insolvent debtor for the use of his trustee, the defendant may set off the plaintiff’s note to a third person, with a blank indorsement, upon proof that the note came to the defendant’s hands before the insolvency; hut he cannot set off a joint note of the plaintiff and another.
    Assumpsit for goods sold; non assumpsit, and discount pleaded in bar. The defendant offered to set off a note made by the plaintiff to John Templeman, and by him indorsed in blank.
    
      Mr. Porter, for the plaintiff,
    objected that it did not appear at what time the note came to the hands of the defendants, and that the precise time must be proved. Dixon v. Evans, 6 T. R. 57.
    The Court (Duckett, J., absent,) permitted the defendant to read the note in evidence, on proof that it came to his hands before the plaintiff’s insolvency.
    
      Mr. Morsell, for the defendant,
    offered to set off a note due from Lowdermilk & Banks to Kunkle & Ghequere, and by them indorsed to the defendant, and offered to prove that the original debt was due from Banks alone for goods sold him by Kunkle & Ghequere.
    
      Mr, Porter, for the plaintiff, contra,
    
    objected that they must be mutual debts, and due in the same right, and cited 1 Powell on Cont. 440; 1 H. Bl. 659 ; 1 Wils. 155; Buller, 179, and Cowp. 133.
   And of that opinion was

the CouRT,

(Duckett, J., absent.)

Verdict for the plaintiff.