Dawson v. Compton

_ — At the February term, 1842, of the Allen Circuit Court, Compton, the defendant in error, filed charges against Reuben J. Dawson and Thomas Johnson, partners, attorneys and counsellors at law of said Court, for refusing to pay to him, after reasonable request made, moneys collected by them as such attorneys for his use. Johnson, one of the defendants, died pending the suit. The defendants pleaded several pleas. Three of them were pleas of payment setting up matters of set-off under the statute. One of them was a plea averring that the money collected belonged to one *422Grimes, to whom, as the…