Fifield v. Edwards

Edwards & .Murphy sued Eifield in the Superior Court of Detroit to recover the price of certain goods received by one A. B. Watson, but for which, as they claimed, Fifield had made himself responsible. The principal question made in the case was whether the judgment in a previous suit, wherein Francis W. Fifield and Eugene Fifield were plaintiffs and Edwards & Murphy were defendants was not a bar to this demand.

In the previous suit Edwards & Murphy relied upon this same demand by. way of set-off to the claim of the two Fifields against them. Judgment passed for the plaintiffs in that suit,…