Hill v. Federal Land Bank

Grice, Justice.

This case was begun originally in a justice’s court, and was appealed to the superior court by consent. The rulings complained of were made by the judge of the superior court on appeal. In an amendment to his counter-affidavit to a distress warrant, the defendant undertook to set up in the justice’s court a counter-claim consisting of certain sums expended by him before the execution of the rent contract which formed the basis of the distress warrant. This defense was stricken on motion. The defendant excepted. “The only defense against a distress warrant which the statute…