100 F. 552 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont | 1900
The bill well alleges that the plaintiff purchased a judgment of the defendant bank against Edward A. Sowles and D. Hoyes Burton of $3,097.27 for half of what she could collect upon it, and that she secured the whole of it by attachment on mesne process in a suit upon it in the name of the bank; that she indorsed four notes of Edward A. Sowles, previously indorsed by Margaret B. Sowles, his wife, of $800 each, for their accommodation, which were delivered to the bank in settlement of other claims than the judgment of the bank against him; that the bank has discharged the defendants from the suit on the judgment for $300; that the bank has brought suit in this court against her on three of the notes; and it prays a set-off of what she has been deprived of by the discharge, and an injunction against prosecuting the suit for more than the balance. The bill has been demurred to by the bank, and the cause heard. If the allegations of