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100 Mass. 91

Hunt v. Taft

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1868

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1868-10-15

Contract on an account for seventy-five dollars for rent of a farm for three years; submitted to the judgment of the court on these facts agreed: Before the commencement of this action, this defendant sued this plaintiff in tort before a justice of the peace for the conversion of crops on the farm; in which former action this plaintiff filed a declaration in set-off on an account for one hundred dollars for rent of the farm for four years, including the three years for which…

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1934

1 state decisions

Relies on Goodrich v. Yale

Cited in Bouvier (1914)’s definition of “Final Recovery”

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Decided 1868-10-15

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Wells, J.

¶1The plaintiff, by his declaration in set-off in the former action, voluntarily submitted his demand for rent to the determination of the magistrate; and procured its deduction from the amount of damages awarded to the other party. He thereby obtained and accepted satisfaction thereof. It is too late for him now to revoke the authority thus given to the tribunal which he then selected. He had the opportunity to correct the error in the proceedings, by an appeal. He chose to acquiesce in the judgment as it was rendered. He cannot in this action take advantage of the irregularity which he has himself occasioned and of which he has had the benefit. Goodrich v. Yale, 97 Mass. 15. Brigham v. Burnham, 12 Allen, 97. Bodurtha v. Phelon, 13 Gray, 413. He may not have received the full amount of his claim, but his right of action is exhausted.

¶2Judgment for the defendant.

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