Collins v. Campbell
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
()n report. Motion for set-off allowed. Two actions of debt upon judgments rendered by the Common Pleas Division of the Supreme Court of Rhode -Island. Both of said actions were defaulted.
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()n report. Motion for set-off allowed. Two actions of debt upon judgments rendered by the Common Pleas Division of the Supreme Court of Rhode -Island. Both of said actions were defaulted. Before the default of the actions and while both of said cases were pending in court, and before judgment, the plaintiffs in the suit of Campbell et al. v. Collins moved the ctiurt to order the judgment to be rendered by this court- in the suit of Campbell et al. v. Collins to be offset pro tanto against the judgment to be rendered by this court in the suit of Collins v. Campbell, except as to the taxable…
1Opinion of the CourtPeabody, J.
The question presented by the report is the right of equitable set-off. It affects the judgments which may be recovered in two suits pending in the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Hancock.
In one of these suits John E. Collins is plaintiff and Edward T. Campbell is defendant, and in the other Edward T. Campbell and John H. Macomber, as co-partners of the firm of Campbell & Macomber, are plaintiffs and John E. Collins is defendant.
The plaintiffs in the suit Campbell et al. v. Collins, by motion addressed to the court at nisi prius, ask that an order be made directing the judgment which…
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