Case Name: Reynolds v. Administrators of Reynolds
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1827-12
Citations: 3 Ohio 268
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Reynolds v. Administrators of Reynolds.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cases decided in the supreme court of ohio : upon the circuit at the special sessions in Columbus
Volume: 3
Pages: 252–252

Head Matter:
*Reynolds v. Administrators of Reynolds.
Case fully tried at law not relievable in equity.
Heard before Judges Burnet and Sherman, in Brown county, 1827.
The complainant charges in his bill, that in March, 1826, he gave his promissory note to his father, for one hundred dollars, payable in July, 1812, for the purchase money of fifteen acres of land. That in 1819, he purchased of his father a wagon, and gave his note for the further sum of seventy dollars. That in 1815, his father commenced a suit against one Delaney, and employed the complainant to conduct and manage the said suit, as his attorney in fact. That in the management of that suit, he'laid out and expended large sums of money, exceeding, in the whole, the amount of the notes given by him, as aforesaid. That after the death of his father, and after the service and disbursements before mentioned, the administrators of his said father commenced suit against him, on the notes given as above. That at the trial, he offered evidence of his demand, by way of set-off, but that the jury refused to allow him his full credit, and rendered.a verdict against him for one hundred and two dollars. The bill prays for an injunction, and for relief.
The defendants demurred, and the case was submitted without argument.

Opinion:
By the Court :
We are not often troubled with a case so perfectly destitute of equity as the one before us. The facts on which the bill is predicated, were not only a proper defense to the suit at law, bat it is admitted by the bill that they were all submitted to, and decided on by the jury, and the amount of the verdict shows that the claim was allowed, as far as the jury believed it to be correct. If injustice was done, the remedy was by moving for a new trial, or by an appeal.
Bill dismissed.