Carlisle v. Long

Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action of debt brought by Long against Car-lisle upon a bond, conditioned for the faithful prosecution of an appeal taken by Carlisle to a judgment of the Wood-ford circuit court,.rendered in favor of Long.

Carlisle, by way of set off, pleaded a judgment which he alledges to have recovered in the same court against Long, before the commencement of the present action, and which he avers still remains in full force and unreversed, &c.

To this plea Long replied, that the judgment appealed from although obtained in his name, was for the…