Larsen v. Field

This is an action in assumpsit to recover for labor performed and materials furnished in painting and decorating the defendant’s house in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The declaration was on the common counts, to which was attached a bill of particulars, specifying the particular items sued upon, giving credits for payments and showing a balance due and unpaid amounting to $798.70. The defendant entered a plea of the general issue and attached thereto a notice of claim for recoup*441ment growing out of negligent workmanship and inferior material. On the trial the defendant sought to show that she had an…