Scogin v. Hudspeth

This was an action commenced in the Jackson Circuit Court by petition and summons by Hudspeth, the defendant in error, against Scogin, the plaintiff in error. The summons was served on the 21st of April, 1832, and the return term of the Court began on the 19th of June thereafter. The defendant pleaded in set-off amongst other things, “ that the plaintiff was indebted to him" in the further sum of sixty dollars, for the rent of his, the said defendant’s, farm by parol lease. The defendant also moved the Court for a continuance of the cause, on the following affidavit: “ The defendant R. R.…