Hunter v. Thomas

This is a controversy about a small matter. The appellee sued the appellant, before a justice of the peace, for nine dollars and eighty-five cents. The justice rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff for six dollars and fifteen cents. The defendant appealed, after having replevied the judgment, and in the circuit court, and there for the first time apparently, recollected that he had a set-off against the plaintiff for eight days’ use of a mowing machine, for which he charged twenty-four dollars, and- this, with a general denial, he there pleaded. The plaintiff replied to the set-off *45a…