Crovo v. United States

This is a suit by plaintiffs to recover the sum of $1,286.28, the purchase price of vegetables sold the defendant. The defendant filed a plea of set-off alleging that six or seven years previously the plaintiffs had collected money from it on false vouchers, the amount of which it sought to offset against plaintiffs’ demand. Plaintiffs filed a demurrer to this plea. The demurrer was sustained. Defendant then filed an amended plea of set-off, to which the plaintiffs have filed a demurrer. The case is now before us on this demurrer.

Defendant’s amended plea of set-off differs in no substantial…