Berrigan v. Pearsall
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit; brought to the City Court of the city of Waterbury, and tried to the court, upon the general issue, with notice of a set-off, before Melds, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, denying the set-off. Motion in error by the defendant to the Superior Court, and a reservation of the case by that court for advice. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
The defendant assigns as error in this case that the court held that the sum of three hundred dollars, found to have been loaned by him to Thomas Hennelly, deceased, whose estate was in settlement as an insolvent estate, could not be set off against a claim which Hennelly had against him in his life time, and for which the plaintiff, who holds the claim by assignment, has brought the present suit.
The finding shows that Hennelly had an account on book against the defendant, at the time of his death, amounting to $118.09. This account, with a large number of others on Hennelly’s books, was sold…
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