Sherwood v. Hammond

Assumpsit by Hammond against Sherwood. Suit commenced in the White Circuit Court in February, 1837. Plea, the general issue. Judgment for the plaintiff.

On the trial, the plaintiff proved the items of his demand against the defendant as contained in a bill of particulars. The defendant then offered to prove that in March, 1837, he sued the plaintiff before a justice of the peace on two promissory notes, and that on the trial of that action, the plaintiff in this suit—the defendant in that—gave in evidence to the jury, as a set-off, the same matters contained in the bill of particulars; that…