This retort was not so terrible as it appeared; for most of the papers necessary for the making up of the French counterclaim had been lost or destroyed during the Revolution.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
The railway company not only repudiated all liability, but sent in a counterclaim for damage to their engine!
"Grain and Chaff from an English Manor"
Arthur H. Savory
By our constitution, however, a wider field has been given to the principle of setoff, when the counterclaim is clearly established, the amount claimed in the plaintiff's action, whether real or personal, or whatever its nature, being reduced by operation of law to the extent of the defendant's counterclaim.
"The Institutes of Justinian"
Caesar Flavius Justinian