Case Name: T. B. Ruby, Appellant, v. John Baker et al., Appellees
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1920-06-14
Citations: 107 Kan. 186
Docket Number: No. 22,778
Parties: T. B. Ruby, Appellant, v. John Baker et al., Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 107
Pages: 186–186

Head Matter:
No. 22,778.
T. B. Ruby, Appellant, v. John Baker et al., Appellees.
OPINION DENYING A REHEARING.
Appeal from Osborne district court; Richard M. Pickler, judge.
Opinion denying a rehearing filed June 14, 1920.
(For original opinion of affirmance see 106 Kan. 855, 190 Pac. 6.)
R. W. Turner, D. F. Stanley■, both of Mankato, Frank A. Lutz, and A. E. Jordan, both of Beloit, for the appellant.
A. E. Crane, of Topeka, and N. C. Else, of Osborne, for the appellees.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mason, J.:
In a motion for a rehearing stress is laid upon the fact that at common law the remedy of recoupment was allowed only with respect to matters connected with the transaction out of which the plaintiff's cause of action arose. The decision was not based upon the theory that the cross demand of the defendant Baker could be litigated in this action because it fell within the definition of common-law recoupment. .The reference to recoupment was for the purpose of illustrating that where no affirmative relief is sought under it a cross demand in favor of one of several defendants is not rendered unavailable as a defense on the ground of want of mutuality.
The motion for a rehearing is overruled.