delivered the opinion of the Court.

If the note offered as a set off, had been payable to any other person, and assigned to the defendant, a different question from the present would have been presented ; but being made payable to the defendant, it cannot be *148presumed that after being sued, he bad obtained it for the purpose of using it as a set off; and though pat able to defendant, or bearer, it does not appear that it has ever been transferred, and it was in defendant’s posses on, when be offered it as a set off. Hogg and Ponsonby were jointly and severally bound by the note, and as. the several debt of each, it was a good set off against either. Let the judgement be affirmed.