Wash. Rev. Code § 12.08.120

Current through the 2024 Regular Session
Section 12.08.120 - Setoff-Pleading

To entitle a defendant to any setoff he or she may have against the plaintiff, he or she must allege the same in his or her answer; and the statutes regulating setoffs in the superior court, shall in all respects be applicable to a setoff in a justice's court, if the amount claimed to be setoff, after deducting the amount found due to the plaintiff, be within the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace; judgment may, in like manner, be rendered by the justice in favor of the defendant, for the balance found due the plaintiff.

RCW 12.08.120

Amended by 2010 c 8, § 3024, eff. 6/10/2010.
Code 1881 § 1767; 1873 p 346 § 66; 1854 p 232 § 54; RRS § 1789.

Reviser's note: Justices of the peace and courts to be construed to mean district judges and courts: See RCW 3.30.015.