Case ID: root_1/html/0155-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "by the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ratcliff v. Dewit.
    An action on Look depending, Is no bar to tlie defendant’s suing tlie plaintiff on book.
    Action of debt on book. Plea in abatement — An action commenced by the defendant against the plaintiff, before the date and impetration of the plaintiff’s writ, which is now depending.
    Judgment —■ Plea insufficient.
   And

by the Court.

Although a defendant in an action of book may recover tlie balance due to him; yet a debtor on book may commence an action on purpose to prevent his creditor from attaching, to secure his debt; or bring his action before a justice, where he can recover but £4; or if brought to the County Court, he may lay his damage so low, as to prevent an appeal.