33 Conn. 407
Decided April 15, 1866
Supreme Court of Connecticut · decided 1866-04-15
Assumpsit. The defendant pleaded the general issue with notice of a set-off, and on the trial to the court, before Loomis, J., offered in evidence a judgment recovered in his favor against the plaintiff and one Henry Snyder, upon which there was due a larger sum than the amount of the plaintiff’s demand, and claimed the right to set off so much of the judgment as would satisfy the claim of the plaintiff; to which the plaintiff objected, and the court excluded the evidence…
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Decided 1866-04-15
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1921
4 state decisions
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¶1The precise question involved in this case upon a precisely similar state of facts was decided by this court in Atkins v. Churchill, 19 Conn., 394. It was there held that the set-off could not be allowed. No reason is suggested *408for a change, and even if it were proper to re-examine the point, we could have no doubt that the decision was correct.
¶2We do not advise a new trial.
¶3In this opinion the other judges concurred.