Case Name: McIVER v. WILSON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1807-07
Citations: 16 F. Cas. 154
Docket Number: 
Parties: McIVER v. WILSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 16
Pages: 154–154

Head Matter:
Cas No. 8,833.
McIVER v. WILSON.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 423.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
July Term, 1807.
Setoff — Bankruptcy — Note Assigned to As-signee.
A bond due from the bankrupt to the defendant cannot be set off against the defendant’s note to a third person assigned to the assignee of the bankrupt’s effects after commission issued.
[See Case No. 8,830.]
Assumpsit on a promissory note of Wilson to J. Kennedy, dated the 15th of October, 1805, at 20 days, indorsed by J. Kennedy to Mclver, assignee of the effects of Gillis, a bankrupt. The defendant offered to set off a bond of Gillis to W. Wilson and Roger Col-tart, who is dead, dated 15th of September, 1795, and payable the 15th of March, 1796. The note was given since the date of the commission. The declaration is by Mclver as assignee of the effects of Gillis.

Opinion:
THE COURT
(nem. con.). Clearly, it was not a mutual credit before the bankruptcy, and therefore cannot be set off under the act of congress [of 1800; 2 Stat. 19].