Treadwell's v. Abrams

Roosevelt, Justice.

The defendant admits the claim of the plaintiff for $200, as the balance due on a promissory note made by him on the 28fch April, 1851; but sets up a counter claim, for alleged services of a prior date, to the amount of ten thousand dollars. On the trial, the judge charged, and the jury found against him; and the question now raised is, and it is in reality the only question, was the charge right ? I am thus again called upon, as a single judge, to review the decision of another single judge, both of the same court, and both with the same powers. The unfitness of the…