Case ID: conn_33/html/0407-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McCurdy, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Levi Snyder vs. Norman Spurr.
    In an action brought by A, a judgment in favor of the defendant against A and B cannot be set off.
    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 and rendered judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant moved for a new trial.
    
      Granger, in support of the motion.
    
      Warner, contra.
   McCurdy, J.

The 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 for a change, and even if it were proper to re-examine the point, we could have no doubt that the decision was correct.

We do not advise a new trial.

In this opinion the other judges concurred.