Heath v. Doyle

The first matter for consideration is the plaintiff’s motion to strike out the defendant’s plea of the statute of limitations. The plea was filed by leave of the court, on motion of the defendant, after the parties had been duly heard. It would be a gross injustice to permit the plaintiff to put in evidence causes of action which accrued to him against the defendant more than six years prior to the bringing of the suit and at the same time limit the defendant to the proof, under his plea in set-off, of his causes of action against the plaintiff which accrued to him during that period. The…