Stratton v. Essex County Park Commission

RANNING, District Judge.

The plaintiff has brought this suit to recover an amount alleged to be due on a building contract. The defendant’s first plea to the first count of the declaration is that the claim made by that count was adjudicated in a former suit between the same parties in the court of chancery of New Jersey. After setting forth the contents of the bill of complaint filed in the court of chancery by the plaintiff here, and the answer thereto filed in that court by the defendant here, the defendant avers, by his plea, that a general replication to the answer in the chancery suit…