Case Name: MORRISON v. CLIFFORD
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1809-11
Citations: 17 F. Cas. 838
Docket Number: 
Parties: MORRISON v. CLIFFORD.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 17
Pages: 838–838

Head Matter:
Case No. 9,846.
MORRISON v. CLIFFORD.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 585.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Nov. Term, 1809.
Set-Off — Action on Note — Damages fob Bkbach of Warranties — Fraud.
Unliquidated damages for breach of warranty of the soundness of a hoise, cannot be set off against a note given for the purchase of the horse. But fraud may be given in evidence; for it avoids the-contract altogether.
Debt on a promissory note. Plea, owe nothing. The defendant offered evidence that the horse, for which the note was given, was not sound.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

Opinion:
THE COURT
said the defendant could not set off unliquidated damages for breach of the warranty, against the note, but the defendant might give evidence of fraud in obtaining the note. Fraud goes to the whole note; simple breach of warranty goes only to part of the consideration.