Stembridge v. Sloan

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The plaintiff contends that the two questions now before this court are: (1) “May a plea of alleged overpayment under a previous rent contract be made as against the dispossessory warrant?” And (2) '“May evidence intended to set up a claim for overpayment under a previous rent contract be admitted as against the dispossessory warrant ?”' The defendants contend that their plea is one of payment, and that the written receipts of the plaintiff, when taken as a whole over the period that they continuously occupied the premises, showed that they had paid the…