{ "id": 5430877, "name": "G. E. Hammans, trading as Hammans Land & Lumber Company, Appellee, v. Powell Myers Lumber Company, Appellant", "name_abbreviation": "Hammans v. Powell Myers Lumber Co.", "decision_date": "1920-11-30", "docket_number": "Gen. No. 25,618", "first_page": "196", "last_page": "198", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "220 Ill. App. 196" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "284 Ill. 610", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 4919756 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/284/0610-01" ] }, { "cite": "211 Ill. 333", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 3307915 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/211/0333-01" ] }, { "cite": "118 Ill. 612", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 5382600 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/118/0612-01" ] }, { "cite": "42 Ill. 500", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 5295283 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/42/0500-01" ] }, { "cite": "184 Ill. App. 339", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "2 Ill. 213", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 2479212 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/2/0213-01" ] }, { "cite": "211 Ill. App. 254", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App.", "case_ids": [ 3024652 ], "weight": 2, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app/211/0254-01" ] }, { "cite": "169 Ill. App. 484", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App.", "case_ids": [ 2786585 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app/169/0484-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 348, "char_count": 4943, "ocr_confidence": 0.522, "pagerank": { "raw": 9.693728415608845e-08, "percentile": 0.5296146609319694 }, "sha256": "958523a579a4ce74dc91e781d3b5a1dfe5fda35926243f604a36a730a089ff81", "simhash": "1:db457c265c4b98b8", "word_count": 848 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T18:32:02.569752+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "G. E. Hammans, trading as Hammans Land & Lumber Company, Appellee, v. Powell Myers Lumber Company, Appellant." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. Justice Matchett\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nOn July 18, 1918, plaintiff, who is appellee in this court, sued out a writ of attachment against defendant on the ground that defendant was its debtor and a nonresident of the State.\nSeptember 16, defendant entered a general appearanee and demand for trial by jury and having presented a bond, which was approved, the attachment was dissolved and the garnishee, who had been summoned, discharged. An amended statement of claim was filed by plaintiff setting up the sale of certain lumber to defendant of the value of $1,319.60, which amount it was claimed was still due and unpaid. The defendant filed an affidavit of merits admitting that the sum of $1,175.02 was due on account of plaintiff\u2019s claim and offering to allow that amount out of a claim of offset pleaded by it for the. sum of $2,185. The claim of offset alleged such amount to be due by reason of unliquidated damages arising out of plaintiff\u2019s failure and refusal to ship to the defendant certain other orders for lumber alleged to have been accepted by the plaintiff. It alleged that after allowing all just credits, deductions and set-offs, there was due to defendant from plaintiff the sum of $1,009.98.\nThis amended set-off whs on motion of plaintiff stricken by the court. The cause was submitted to the court for trial, the issues were found for plaintiff with damages assessed at $1,239.13, and judgment) entered on the finding.\nThe amended plea of set-off, which was stricken, set up that the plaintiff was a nonresident of the State of Illinois, and that his residence was in the State of Arkansas, and that the defendant was a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Indiana.\nIt is argued the court erred in striking the claim of set-off and appellant cites authorities which it is claimed hold that unliquidated damages arising out of a different subject-matter may in this State be set off against a nonresident plaintiff. These cases are Ideal Coated Paper Co. v. Samuel Cupples Envelope Co., 169 Ill. App. 484, and Nissly v. Wainer, 211 Ill. App. 254. As we understand the law the right to set-off in this State in purely statutory. At common law a defendant could not set off his demand against plaintiff\u2019s debt. Morton v. Bailey, 2 Ill. 213; Replogle v. Toledo, St. L. & W. R. Co., 184 Ill. App. 339.\nThe statutes with reference to this subject will be found in section 33 of the Practice Act, chap. 110, Hurd\u2019s Rev. St., page 2239 (J. & A. \u00b6 8570), and section 47 of said chapter, page 2241 (J. & A. \u00b6 8584).\nIt is well settled by many decisions of our Supreme Court construing these and similar statutes(that unliquidated damages such as were here set up, arising out of a subject-matter hot connected with the subject-matter of plaintiff\u2019s claim, do not form a proper Waiter of set-off under this statute) Hawks v. Lands, 8 Ill. (3 Gil.) 227; DeForrest v. Oder, 42 Ill. 500; Clause v. Bullock Printing Press Co., 118 Ill. 612; Higbie v. Rust, 211 Ill. 333; Selz v. Stafford, 284 Ill. 610.\nNor are we cited to any decision of our Supreme Court holding that in an action at law the residence or nonresidence of any of the parties is material. It is true there is language in Ideal Coated Paper Co. v. Samuel Cupples Envelope Co. and Nissly v. Wainer, supra, which might be construed to so hold, but an examination of these cases indicates that the authorities relied upon were decisions of courts of other States construing statutes essentially different from the statutes which control here, and, further, that these courts were evidently not required as we are to distinguish between set-off at law and equitable set-off. In equitable set-off the residence of the plaintiff and his insolvency are usually material.\nWe think the court did not err in striking the plea and the judgment will therefore be affirmed.\nAffirmed.\nBarnes, P. J., and Gridley, J., concur.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. Justice Matchett" } ], "attorneys": [ "Pomeroy & Martin, for appellant.", "Herbert A. Schryver, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "G. E. Hammans, trading as Hammans Land & Lumber Company, Appellee, v. Powell Myers Lumber Company, Appellant.\nGen. No. 25,618.\n1. Set-off and recoupment, \u00a7 2 \u2014what is nature of right of set-off. The right of a defendant to set off is purely statutory.\n2. Set-off and recoupment, \u00a7 10*\u2014what damages are not subject of set-off. Unliquidated damages arising out of a subject-matter not connected with the subject-matter of plaintiff\u2019s claim do not form a proper matter of set-off, in an action at law under sections 33 and 47 of the Practice Act, Hurd\u2019s Rev. St. ch. 110 (J. & A. \u00b6\u00b6 8570, 8584), and the nonresidence of any of the parties is immaterial.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Richardson, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1919.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 30, 1920.\nPomeroy & Martin, for appellant.\nHerbert A. Schryver, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number." }, "file_name": "0196-01", "first_page_order": 224, "last_page_order": 226 }