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CHASE CO. v. BEAN

Supreme Court of New Hampshire Hillsborough
Aug 1, 1877

An action at law cannot be maintained by copartners to recover a debt which has been discharged by one of them and paid by a set-off of his separate debt with his assent, when the defendant acted in good faith.

DOE, C. J.

An action at law cannot be maintained by copartners to recover a debt which has been discharged by one of them, and paid by a set-off of his separate debt with his assent, when the defendant acted in good faith. Homer v. Wood, 11 Cush. 62; Williams v. Brimhall, 13 Gray 462; Tay v. Ladd, 15 Gray 296; Greeley v. Wyeth, 10 N.H. 15.

Case discharged.

BINGHAM, J., did not sit.