Key v. Box

Tlie correctness of the plaintiff’s demand is not disputed ; but the defendant contends, that it is extinguished by compensation .to the amount of a claim which he sets up against the firm of Peter Tellon & Co., of which he alleges the plaintiff to be a partner. Then follows a reconventional demand for the surplus of this claim.

Shit is well settled, that compensation does not take place between partnership and individual debts, under the operation of Articles 2203 and 2204 of the Civil Code. So that the defendant, John Box, cannot plead, as an off-set to the debt which he owes to the…