
    ROBERT E. HILL, Respondent, v. JOHN W. NORTHRUP, FLAVILLA NORTHRUP, Impleaded, etc., Appellants.
    
      Promissory note—given to compromise felony—Bona fide owner—Evidence—order of reception of.
    
    In an action upon a promissory note, the defense was set up, that it was given to compromise a felony. The court Refused to allow the defendant to show this fact, unless he first showed that the plaintiff was not a bona fide owner of the note. Meld, that this was not an error—that the court had a right to determine the order in which evidence should be introduced—and that, as the facts which the defendant offered to show would not constitute a defense unless the plaintiff was shown not to be a bona fide purchaser, it was proper that the latter fact should be first shown.
    Appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee.
    
      H. O. Miner, for the appellants.
    
      Fuller, Vann do Brooks, for the respondent.
   Opinion by Smith, J.

Present — Mullin, P. J., Smith and Gilbert, JJ.

Judgment affirmed.  