Case Name: Levi Snyder vs. Norman Spurr
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1866-04
Citations: 33 Conn. 407
Docket Number: 
Parties: Levi Snyder vs. Norman Spurr.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 33
Pages: 407–408

Head Matter:
Levi Snyder vs. Norman Spurr.
In an action brought by A, a judgment in favor of the defendant against A and B cannot be set off.
Assumpsit. The defendant pleaded the general issue with notice of a set-off, and on the trial to the court, before Loomis, J., offered in evidence a judgment recovered in his favor against the plaintiff and one Henry Snyder, upon which there was due a larger sum than the amount of the plaintiff’s demand, and claimed the right to set off so much of the judgment as would satisfy the claim of the plaintiff; to which the plaintiff objected, and the court excluded the evidence and rendered judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant moved for a new trial.
Granger, in support of the motion.
Warner, contra.

Opinion:
McCurdy, J.
The precise question involved in this case upon a precisely similar state of facts was decided by this court in Atkins v. Churchill, 19 Conn., 394. It was there held that the set-off could not be allowed. No reason is suggested for a change, and even if it were proper to re-examine the point, we could have no doubt that the decision was correct.
We do not advise a new trial.
In this opinion the other judges concurred.