Cook v. Smith & Stimpson

This is a suit brought in assumpsit, by appellant against appellees, in the Circuit Court of Morgan County, to recover from appellees, on an account amounting to $1,057.22, which she claims is due her, for (planing) “mill work, "furnished by her to them.”

To her declaration in this ease, the appellees, who are retail lumber dealers in Jacksonville, Illinois, filed a plea of general issue, with a notice of set-off, the same being an account which they claim is due them, for lumber sold and delivered to appellant, through her husband and agent; which account, so set up by way of set-off,…