Case Name: MILLER v. DELAWARE, L. & W. R. CO.
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1878-09
Citations: 17 F. Cas. 314
Docket Number: 
Parties: MILLER v. DELAWARE, L. & W. R. CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 17
Pages: 314–314

Head Matter:
Case No. 9,566.
MILLER v. DELAWARE, L. & W. R. CO.
[2 N. J. Law J. 50.]
Circuit Court, D. New Jersey.
Sept. Term, 1878.
Bankruptcy — Action to Recover Debt Dub Bankrupt — Set-Ofp.
[It is no defense to an action by an assignee to recover a debt due the bankrupt that said debt has been claimed by the bankrupt as set-off in a pending suit.]
[This was an action by Miller, assignee in bankruptcy of Wyckoff and others, against the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company. Heard on demurrer to plea.]'
Edward Q. Keasbey, for demurrants.
Mr. Keen, for defendants.

Opinion:
To a declaration by an assignee in bankruptcy containing the common counts for money due to the bankrupts, a plea was filed alleging that the defendants, before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, had begun a suit against the bankrupts in the New Jersey supreme' court, and that the bankrupts did claim, by way of set-off in that action, the sum of money claimed in this suit, and for the same cause of action, and that that suit was still pending and undetermined.
A demurrer to this plea was sustained. The-plaintiff's counsel cited Serra e' Hijo v. Hoffman [30 La. Ann. 67].