Ex parte Bagg v. Jefferson C. P.

The court granted a rule to shew cause, and the above facts being now shewn for cause why a mandamus should not issue : The Court, Savage, Cb. J. was of opinion that the common pleas had erred ; that they had not the power to set off a note against a judgment, and accordingly directed an alternative mandamus to issue. Bee 6 Cowen, 598.