Case Name: Powrie and Dawson against Fletcher and Phillips
Court: South Carolina Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1798
Citations: 2 Bay 146
Docket Number: 
Parties: Powrie and Dawson against Fletcher and Phillips.
Judges: Present, Grimke, Waties and Bay.
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 146–146

Head Matter:
Powrie and Dawson against Fletcher and Phillips.
Charleston District,
1798.
The private copartner,0'10 ciiimot he set demand of the copartnership.
MOTION for a new trial.
This was an action of assumpsit for goods sold and de» Uvered, to which the defendants filed a discount, for the amount of a bill for painter’s work, done to the house of Mr. Powric, one of the copartners.

Opinion:
The jury, contrary to the charge of the presiding judge who tried the cause, allowed the defendants the amount of their demand.
This was a motion for a new trial, which was ordered without argument, and that too without costs ; as the jury did wrong in allowing the discount; the law being very clear, that the private debt of one copartner, cannot be set off against a copartnership demand.
Present, Grimke, Waties and Bay.