Coppage v. Gregg

The appellee filed a claim in the form of an itemized account against the estate of appellant’s decedent. To this the appellant filed an answer in three paragraphs, the first being the general denial, and the second and third were by way of set-off, containing averments that appellant, as administrator of the estate of his decedent, had recovered a judgment against the claimant at a previous term of court, founded upon a promissory note, which judgment appellant asked to have set off against an equal amount that might be found to be due the appellee, and demanded judgment over for the balance.