King Paint Co. v. Lang

The plaintiff sued to recover thirty-nine dollars and sixty cents for paint sold and delivered. The defendant admitted that he purchased goods amounting to said sum, but set up a counterclaim of fifteen dollars for the expense of putting on a third coat of paint which he claimed was made necessary by a defect in the quality of some of the paint sold and delivered to him by the plaintiff. Notwithstanding the defendant’s admission of a clear indebtedness to the plaintiff in the sum of twenty-four dollars and sixty cents the jury rendered a verdict of fifteen dollars for the defendant. The jury…