Livingood v. Livingood

Debt by the administrators of Peter Livingood against Christopher Livingood'on a single bill, dated November the 1st, 1833, for the payment to the intestate of ¡$200 in six years and nine months. The suit was commenced in October, 1840. The defendant pleaded, 1st, Payment, with a set-off which consisted of an account amounting to $260 the particulars being stated; 2d, That the plaintiffs were not administrators. To the first plea the plaintiffs replied, that the cause of set-off “did not accrue within five years next *286before the 1st day of November, 1833.” The defendant demurred generally to…