Glass v. Wheeliss

This suit is brought on a judgment obtained by plaintiff against defendant in the city of New York for the sum of $4609 82, to he paid in silver coin, and $141 80 in legal currency. The answer contains a general denial and a reconventional demand for $1083 75, as compensation for services rendered and expenses paid and incurred in the custody, transportation and recovery of certain specie committed by plaintiff to defendant for safe keeping in Nashville, Tennessee, in February, 1862.

To this reconventional demand the plaintiff opposes the plea of res judicata, the same demand having been…