Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court November 15, 1839 (Swett v. Perley Ordway & Trustees)

Shaw C. J.

drew up the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is, whether the manufacturing company sum*268moned as trustees, can deduct, from the amount due to the principal defendant for his labor in their employment, the amount of goods taken up by the laborer at the store of Babson.