Spinney v. Hyde

Defendants, who reside in New Orleans, being sued by plaintiff, a resident of New York, for the price of one-fourth interest in the ship Cotton Planter, sold by plaintiff to defendants, have reconvened and claimed of plaintiff a large sum for balance of account for the earnings of the said ship, while owned jointly by the parties, and employed in the business of a common carrier or freighting vessel.

The plaintiff’s counsel objected, on the trial of the cause, to the introduction of evidence offered by defendants of the items of their reconventional demand, on the ground that said evidence…