Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Poe

The suit in this ease was brought by the receivers of the United Surety Company against the Fidelity and Deposit Company, the appellant, to> recover the sum of $5,183.34 in the hands of the appellant belongings to the appellees, and .about which there is no dispute, but to the recovery of which the. appellant interposed two pleas of setoff, one, for the sum of $3,666.01 and the other for the sum of $1,417.98. The first of these amounts ($3,666.01) was allowed as a credit in a suit brought by tbe appellees against the appellant, which resulted in a verdict for the appellees. On appeal that…