Morris v. National Cash Register Co.

National Cash Register Company, a corporation, sued M. Morris on a promissory note and to foreclose the lien of a chattel mortgage on three cash registers. Defendant an-swefed by a general denial and specially pleaded a payment of $100, also claimed an agreed credit of $200, and an offset of $100, because of defects in one of the cash registers for which the note was given. The case was dismissed for want of prosecution February 28, 1930, but the following day, on verbal motion of plaintiff (no written motion is found in the record), the court set aside the judgment and reinstated the cause.…