Keith v. Humphries

Judge Logan

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit in chancery, injoining a judgment at law, rendered in favor of Keith, upon a plea of set-off on the following case:

As partners in trade, a judgment was obtained against Keith & Humphries, of which Keith paid upwards of Z100 more than his equal moiety. Humphries afterwards preferred his bill to recover the distributive share of his wife from Keith, the administrator of her father’s estate ; and, pending the suit, entered into a compromise, by which *14Keith agreed to pay him $212, in certain payments, and procured from him a release.

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