Spurr v. Snyder
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in Equity for a set-off. The bill alleged that the petitioner in 1863 recovered a judgment in Massachusetts against the respondents, Henry Snyder and Levi Snyder, for $1,747 damages and $22.57 costs, which judgment was still in force, and on which there was now due to the petitioner the sum of $649.26; that Levi Snyder had brought an action against him upon two notes, previously given by him to said Levi, one for $75 and interest, dated March 29th, 1862, and the other…
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Bill in Equity for a set-off. The bill alleged that the petitioner in 1863 recovered a judgment in Massachusetts against the respondents, Henry Snyder and Levi Snyder, for $1,747 damages and $22.57 costs, which judgment was still in force, and on which there was now due to the petitioner the sum of $649.26; that Levi Snyder had brought an action against him upon two notes, previously given by him to said Levi, one for $75 and interest, dated March 29th, 1862, and the other for $25 and interest, dated April 1st, 1862, which action was pending before the Superior Court in Litchfield County;…
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
When the question involved in this case and between the same parties was presented to us before, it was in an action at law, and turned on the construction of our statute. It is now presented in equity, and is to be determined by different rules and principles.
The docti’ine of set-off has always been recognized in the civil law by the term “compensation,” and has been adopted in all the systems of jurisprudence copied from that law. It was not known or adopted in the common law of England, although founded confessedly in justice and sound policy, until reluctantly and cautiously introduced…
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