Shannon v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““If a defendant, at the commencement of a suit, has a set-off against the plaintiff which will mature before the time of trial, the plaintiff ought to liquidate the amount of that set-off upon his claim before he sues. The policy of the law should be to avoid multiplicity of suits. But there is great justice in limiting this right of set-off to claims held by the defendant at the commencement of the suit, because it would work a hardship upon the plaintiff to be compelled, on the trial, to allow a set-off procured afterward, of wMch he must, necessarily, have been ignorant, and in no wrong for not crediting upon his account before suit, and which might defeat a suit justly commenced, ivhereby he toould be mulct in costs.” (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phoenix Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Ellis