Case Name: Phillips v. Halsey
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1790-03
Citations: 1 Root 194
Docket Number: 
Parties: Phillips v. Halsey.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 194–194

Head Matter:
Phillips v. Halsey.
On a hearing in damages on a note, which is defaulted; a claim, on the ground of another agreement, hy the defendant, cannot be offset on the note.
Action on a note, dated for payable, etc. Case defaulted. Defendant moved to be heard in damages; alleging that it was given for the premium on a policy of insurance from New London to Ireland, with liberty to go to the Isle of May, and in case said Snow should not go to the Isle of May, .'3 per cent, of the premium should be retained; and that said ■Snow did not go to the Isle of May.
Question was made — Whether this could be introduced on •a hearing in damages on the note.

Opinion:
By the Court.
It cannot. It is another contract than that on which the action is brought; and if there is anything due on that ground the court are not authorized to make the offset.