7 Mass. 467 | Mass. | 1811
We cannot grant the motion. We must govern ourselves by principles settled. The plaintiffs have a right to the benefit of the estoppel in this last stage of the cause. [ * 470 ] Perhaps, if the defendants had, during the trial, * brought into Court the whole sum due from them, with the costs, and thus complete justice had been done, we might then have thought them, on equitable considerations, within the principle of the decision in the case of Leicester vs. Rehoboth, and might have
Let the verdict be amended by deducting the 24 dollars paid, and let judgment be then entered upon it.