Court Opinion

ID: 5460119
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-09 19:33:08.716939+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:32:50.618870
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By the Court, Ingraham, J.
A counter-claim, under the code, may be either for liquidated or unliquidated damages, if they arise upon contract.
Where a claim is prosecuted by a plaintiff against a defendant who has a claim against the plaintiff and others, on contract, the defendant may set up the same as a counterclaim, and recover any balance against the plaintiff, over the *450plaintiff’s claim; unless the plaintiff replies to the counterclaim that there are other persons liable with him, as partners. (Briggs v. Briggs, 20 Barb. 477.) In such a case the counter-claim is good, so far as to he a set-off against the plaintiff’s claim to that amount.
[New York General Term,
May 6, 1861.
It would seem, further, that the case does not differ from one where the party in a suit on his own note, given in payment for property delivered under a contract, makes defense that the property was not according to the contract. And in such a case the ground of defense taken by this defendant must he admissible, and if proved, available.
Judgment reversed,- and a new trial ordered; costs to abide the event.
Clerke, Gould and Ingraham, Justices.]