Roper v. Monroe Grocer Co.

ODOM, J. L. W. Roper,

the plaintiff, *271who is a resident of the state of Colorado, brought suit against the Monroe Grocer Company, Limited, a Louisiana corporation, domiciled and having its principal place of business at Monroe, Louisiana, to recover the price of a carload of hay shipped by plaintiff from Colorado to the defendant company at Ruston, Louisiana.

The defendant company admitted that the amount sued for is correct but pleaded in compensation or set-off the amount of a judgment which it had previously obtained in a magistrate’s court in the city of Denver, state of Colorado, against…