Rhinelander Refrigerator Co. v. Rothenberg

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff brought this suit upon account as for goods and merchandise sold and delivered to defendants. In their answer, in addition to certain special defenses, defendants claim that plaintiff is indebted to them by way of set-off and recoupment in a large sum, greatly exceeding that of plaintiff’s demand.

The basis of the claim' for damages is that plaintiff had entered into a contract with defendants, by which the latter were given the exclusive right to sell refrigerators, of a certain class manufactured by the plaintiff, in the city of Detroit, and used in…