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46 Vt. 45

Bemis v. Jennings

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided August 15, 1873

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1873-08-15

General Assumpsit. * Pleas, tbe general issue, offset in the general assumpsit counts and on judgment, and former adjudication. Trial by jury and verdict for the defendant, September term, 1872, Ross, J., presiding. The plaintiffs conceded that the defendant should be allowed in offset the sum of fourteen dollars, balance due on judgment, and the controversy was as to an item of the plaintiffs’ account for keeping the defendant’s horse.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1878

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Decided 1873-08-15

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¶1*47The opinion of the-court was delivered by

Wheeler, J.

¶2From the testimony of one of the plaintiffs, as stated in the bill of exceptions, it appears that while they had the use of the defendant’s horse for which he recovered judgment, it was kept by them, so that his just claim against them in that behalf, was for compensation for the use of the horse, they keeping it. It does not appear, nor did the plaintiffs offer to show, so far as the case states, but that the damages in the suit of the defendant against the plaintiffs, were assessed upon that basis. The presumption, nothing to the contrary appearing, is that the damages were so assessed, and that adjudication would include and merge the claim the plaintiffs sought to enforce for the keeping of the horse in this suit. The decision of the court, as the case stood, in respect to that item, was correct.

¶3The other points saved in the exceptions, have not been urged in this court.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

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