Supreme Court of Missouri July 15, 1872 (Holmes v. Lykins)

Adams, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action on a note executed by the defendant to plaintiff’s intestate. The defendant, by way of counter-claim, set up as a credit the amount of a note which he had transferred to the intestate, and for which he took the following receipt,-

*400“ Received; November 25,1861, óf J. Lykins, one note, signed by John P. Wood, William R.