Case Name: HEWES against MUNGAN
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1807-09
Citations: 2 N.J.L. 256
Docket Number: 
Parties: [*] HEWES against MUNGAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 240–240

Head Matter:
[*] HEWES against MUNGAN.
ON CERTIORARI.
Set-off without pleading payment, illegal.
White, for plaintiffs.

Opinion:
Kirkpatrick, C. J.
— The defendant, on the trial of this canse, was suffered to make off-set without having filed a plea, and the verdict was for him, for forty-two dollars and seventeen cents. This is irregular. The act is positive. In order to let in proof of set-off, there must be a plea of payment filed. The filing of an account, containing the items to be set-off is not enough. It has repeatedly been so determined. Reverse.
Rossell, and Pennington, Justices. — Concurred.
Judgment reversed'.
See Phillips v. M'Cullough ante, *69.