Sinclair v. Hathaway

Plaintiff sued defendant for a balance' claimed to be due for bread. Defendant claimed that the account had been balanced by bad bread returned, and by a sum of ten dollars paid in settlement of accounts.

Plaintiff was a baker, and defendant’s business was to sup. ply bread to customers about the city. It appears that for a period defendant was employed by plaintiff to sell his bread,, and make returns and pay for the bread furnished daily. Defendant claims that on several occasions the bread furnished was bad and unwholesome, and that he returned it to a sufficient extent to overbalance his…