Case ID: ga-app_25/html/0349-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jenkins, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

11162.
    Saggus v. Standard.
    Decided May 12, 1920.
    Distraint; from city court of Washington — Judge Wynne. November 25, 1919. •
    
      Colley & Colley, for plaintiff in error.
    
      C. E. Sutton, contra.
   Jenkins, P. J.

While a defendant in a distress warrant proceeding may, without showing actual fraud, set up a claim arising from an alleged shortage in acreage, where he relies upon an alleged express warranty guaranteeing a specified acreage under the terms of the particular rent contract under which the distress warrant issued, still the rule is that a claim merely by way of set-off cannot be pleaded as against rent, and consequently another claim, seeking to recover an alleged overpayment made under a previous similar but independent contract, cannot be joined in such a defense. McMahan v. Tyson, 23 Ga. 43; Johnston v. Patterson, 86 Ga. 725 (13 S. E. 17).

Judgment affirmed.

Stephens and Smith, JJ., concur.