Case ID: dc_3/html/0365-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Langley v. Brent.
    A debt due by two joint debtors to two joint creditors cannot be set off as against a debt due by one of the joint creditors to one of the joint debtors.
    Assumpsit on the defendant’s promissory note to the plaintiff. Langley and King rented a wharf from Brent and Pierson in 1822; Langley and King dissolved their partnership in 1824, indebted to Brent and Pierson in the sum of $53.
    
      Mr. Morfit, for the plaintiff. Mr. Worthington, for the defendant.
   The Couet decided that it could not be set-off in this action.