Supreme Court of the United States November 7, 1904, 22 (Crawford v. Burke)

Mr. Justice Brown,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of -the court.

A year after this case was put at issue, and upon the opening of the trial, defendants filed their separate pleas

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setting up their discharge in bankruptcy, and averring that plaintiff’s claim was a provable debt, and the discharge a complete defense.