Schmidt & Zeigler v. John G. Rost & Co.

Opinion by

Ector, P. J.

§ 684. Beconvention; requisites and sufficiency of plea in. Schmidt & Zeigler sued on two promissory notes for $250 each. Defendants pleaded specially in reconvention for $5,000 damages done them by plaintiffs by means of a circular letter which plaintiffs addressed to the creditors of defendants, advising said creditors not to accept an assignment or proposition of Eost & Co. for a composition of their debts at twenty cents on the dollar. The plaintiffs excepted to this plea in reconvention, and moved the court to strike it out as being irrelevant and insufficient in…