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5 Ark. 252

Roy v. O'Connor

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided July 15, 1843

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1843-07-15

This was an appeal from a justice of the peace, tried in the Hempstead Circuit Court, in May, 1843, before the Hon. John Field, one of the circuit judges. O’Connor sued Roy before the justice on a note for $50 75, and an account for $14 99. Roy admitted the claims to be correct, and claimed as a set-off, a bond for $37 50, executed by O’Connor to James M. Duke, and endorsed to him.

Decided 1843-07-15

¶1By the Court,

Lacy, J.

¶2The counsel for the plaintiff objected to his bond as evidence, upon the sole ground that they had no notice of such intended off-set. The court sustained the objection because the statute required a notice to be given. This requisition is certainly a mere technical rule, which a party has a right to waive or insist on at pleasure. By the agreement of the respective counsel, and which is made a matter of record, all technical objections were to be waived by both sides. The objection insisted on at the trial, is nothing more than a mere technical objection, and should it prevail, the case could not be tried on its merits. This objection is a clear violation of their agreement, and they are estopped by their own admission from insisting that notice should have been first given them of the off-set; and the court, in excluding the note as evidence, manifestly erred.

¶3Judgment reversed.

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