Lane v. Cook
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
MOTION for a new trial. This was an action of book debt. The defendant pleaded the general issue. On the trial, the defendant exhibited his account, and offered •vidence to support it; to which the defendant objected, on the ground that the account was res adjudicata. In r . ■ , . . , , . , , , support or hrs objection, the defendant produced a record of the city court of the city of New-Haven, in an action in which Coojír was plaintiff, and Lane defendant.
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MOTION for a new trial. This was an action of book debt. The defendant pleaded the general issue. On the trial, the defendant exhibited his account, and offered •vidence to support it; to which the defendant objected, on the ground that the account was res adjudicata. In r . ■ , . . , , . , , , support or hrs objection, the defendant produced a record of the city court of the city of New-Haven, in an action in which Coojír was plaintiff, and Lane defendant. It was an action ot book debt, in common form, demanding one hundred dollars. The plea was as follows: “ Jfeiv-Haven city, April 13th,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Couht.
It appears by the record of the city court, that Lane, the defendant in that action, and plaintiff in this, appeared in the court to defend, and pleaded that he owed the plaintiff nothing by book, but that the plaintiff owed him. The necessary legal inference, there, fore, is, that his book account was then submitted to the consideration and decision of that court. And the judgment states, that the court fully heard the parties in the premises; found that the defendant did owe ; and thereupon did consider, &c.
This appearance and plea of Lane, and the judgment 0£ .the city court…
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