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34 Mo. 224

Savage v. Allen

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided October 15, 1863

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1863-10-15

Charles Circuit Court. Savage, defendant in error, sued the plaintiffs in error, John B. Allen and W. H. Conner, before a justice of the peace, on a promissory note for one hundred dollars. The defendant Conner was not served with process, nor was there any appearance entered for him before the justice, or in the Circuit Court, nor was there any dismissal as to Conner in either court, but the judgment of the justice is expressed to to be rendered against defendant Allen.

Decided 1863-10-15

Bates, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2This suit originated before a justice of the peace, where *226judgment was given against the defendant, who appealed to the Circuit Court, where judgment was again given against him, and lie has brought the case to this court by writ of error.

¶3The suit was upon a note to which the defendant set up offsets, among which was a claim for rent due from the plaintiff to one Conner, an® assigned by Conner to the defendant. The plaintiff offered and gave in evidence, in rebuttal of defendant’s claim, an agreement by Conner to supply the plaintiff with firewood, and that if lie did not do so the expense of procuring it should be deducted from the rent, and also such, expense for getting firewood. The defendant objected to that testimony, but the particular ground of objection is not Shown by the record, and now urges in this court as an objection to the testimony that it was an offset to an offset, which was in effect a new suit. If that objection had been properly saved it would not avail the plaintiff in error, because the matter given in evidence intended to show part payment of the defendant’s offsets, and not another offset by the plaintiff.

Judges Bay and Dryden concur.
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