Shurter v. Butler

REESE, Associate Justice.

M. Butler sued H. Shurter to recover $2,400.10 alleged to be due him by Shurter for bricks sold and delivered. Defendant Shurter answering admitted that he owed the amount stated, but pleaded in offset and reconvention damages growing out of a breach of the contract whereby Butler had agreed to sell and deliver the bricks within a limited time, which it was alleged he had failed to do.

Upon trial before a jury Butler -had a verdict for the amount claimed by him to be due, less $280, being a part of the damages claimed by defendant in his plea in reconvention. From this…