Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1840

Foot v. Martin

Foot v. Martin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 15, 1840 · Shaw
42 Mass. 273

Foot v. Martin

Opinion of the Court

Shaw, C. J.

Without considering the objection, that this motion is not seasonably made, the court are of opinion that, the *274proposed set-off, if filed, could not be maintained. It does not appear that Mrs. Foot was debtor for the expenses incurred in support of her grandchildren. She entered into a special engagement that those expenses should be paid out of her estate, after her decease ; but this creates no obligation to pay them during her life. Besides, the stipulation that, in case Mr. Brown should advance $ 1200, on a particular contingency, to one of them, it should be deducted out of notes held by the plaintiff against him, carries with it a strong implication, that the other advances made by him were not to be so deducted. To allow then, by way of set-off, a deduction from those notes, would be manifestly against the intentions of the parties.

Motion overruled.

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