Hollingsworth v. Stone

Bicknell, C. C.

— The appellee brought this suit against the appellant and one Johnson to recover back money alleged' to have been paid upon compulsion.

The complaint averred that the plaintiff sued the appellant Hollingsworth, before said Johnson, who was a justice of the "peace; that in said suit Hollingsworth filed a plea of set-off without asking for any judgment against the plaintiff, and stated before the justice that he claimed no judgment against the plaintiff for any excess of his set-off over the plaintiff’s claim; that thereupon the matters in issue in said suit were submitted to…