Commonwealth v. Matlack
Cases that cite this one
7 later published cases cite this decision.
- Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways (Pa. 1978)
- (HC) Martinez-Costa v. Pallares (United States District Court for the Eastern District of California 2021)
- In re Monongahela Rye Liquors, Inc. (3d Cir. 1944)
- French Republic v. Inland Nav. Co. (District Court, E.D. Missouri 1920)
- State ex rel. Young v. Holgate (Minn. 1909)
- Borden v. Houston (Tex. 1847)
- United States v. Wilkins (Supreme Court of the United States 1821)
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Opinion
Commonwealth
versus
Matlack.
Supreme Court of United States.
M`Kean, attorney-general, for the commonwealth.
Dallas, for the defendant.
But, after argument, the COURT declared, that the defendant could not indirectly recover from the state, a substantive, independent, claim by way of set-off, any more than he could directly recover a debt due from the state, by bringing a suit against her. That the present action was brought to compel an account for money received for the use of the Senate; in which the defendant, if he proved, that the money received was so applied, would be entitled to a verdict; but that even then, he could not be entitled to a verdict for the amount of his advances; which the Senate alone was competent to allow.
Verdict, generally, for the defendant.
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