Case ID: la-ann_2/html/0402-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "■Rost,-J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

New Orleans Gas Light and Banking Company v. Hill.
    Open accounts against a plaintiff, not acknowledged by liim, transferred to defendant by a third person, cannot be pleaded in compensation, in an action by plaintiff on a promissory note.
    Appeal from-the District Court of Madison, Curry, J.
    
      Bemiss, for the plaintiff. H.W. Dunlap, for the appellant.
   The judgment of the court was pronounced, by

■Rost,-J.

This is a-suit upon a promissory note, against the defendant as maker.- He pleaded in compensation various open accounts against the plaintiffs, alleged to have been transferred to him. The court below disregarded the plea,, and gave judgment in favor of the plaintiffs for the whole amount claimed, and interest from the day of the protest.

There is no error in the judgment. The accounts set up by the defendant were not acknowledged, and could not be compensated with his note. The protest was in the usual form,,and the court did not err in admitting it in evidence.

Judgment affirmed.