Case Name: HAWTHORN vs. ROBERTS, &c.
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1806-11-01
Citations: 1 Hard. 70
Docket Number: 
Parties: HAWTHORN vs. ROBERTS, &c.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 70–70

Head Matter:
HAWTHORN vs. ROBERTS, &c.
November 1st.
Set-off — fee cafe.
Afts of 1796-7 p, 29, § 9, 1 Brad. 233.

Opinion:
By the CotiRT
-The judgment set-off having been, obtained and assigned after this suit had been commenc* ⅛ was not a niutual debt subsisting at the time the suit was brought; and according to the principle establishe4 in the case Caldwell vs. Grundy ( ), was not pleadable as a set'°^ nor should it have been permitted to be gy ven in evidence. — •—Judgment reversed.
(a) Pr. Dec. 264.