Court Opinion

ID: 8358988
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-18 00:13:03.5979+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:46:01.138681
License: Public Domain

The defendant, paying money over to the sheriff, on an execution, cannot be considered as paying it voluntarily ; and if improperly paid, the sheriff, upon a rule may be ordered to pay it back.
Where the plaintiff’s demand has been reduced by actual payments, to a sum within the Summary Process jurisdiction, he must proceed by way of Summary Process for the balance ; and if he bring his action for the Vkhole, he can recover only the costs of a Summary Process. But it is otherwise where there are mutual demands, and the plaintiff's debt is reduced by discount; because he may not know the amount of the defendant’s demand; neither can he know that he will avail himself of such defence.