Kalt v. Lignot

Roosevelt, Justice.

This is a suit for professional services as a physician—the plaintiff claiming $500 as the proper measure of compensation. The defendant first denies the services, then says they were not worth over $25; then alleges unskilfulness, and damage consequent upon it to the amount of $5,000; and, lastly, alleges that the plaintiff owes him, in addition, $171, for champagne and claret. In other words, he meets the plaintiff’s claim, be it more or less, by a counter-claim, for which, in his turn, he demands judgment against the plaintiff.

The referee, to whom the matter was…