Jonau v. Ferrand

The defendant resisted a claim made upon his due bill or bon, for money acknowledged to have been received, by a plea in compensation and a demand in reconvention, on an allegation of long standing and unsettled accounts. These pleas were, on the motion of the plaintiff’s counsel, stricken out, on which the defendant pleaded payment. There was a judgment against him, and he has appealed.

In this court the defendant’s counsel complains that his original pleas were erroneously stricken out. In two cases, between the same parties, which were determined in May last, the same points were raised;…