diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/StoreScanner.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/StoreScanner.java
index bb1354d0573..a90d9d8eb90 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/StoreScanner.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/StoreScanner.java
@@ -626,22 +626,11 @@ public class StoreScanner extends NonReversedNonLazyKeyValueScanner
           case INCLUDE:
           case INCLUDE_AND_SEEK_NEXT_ROW:
           case INCLUDE_AND_SEEK_NEXT_COL:
-
             Filter f = matcher.getFilter();
             if (f != null) {
               cell = f.transformCell(cell);
             }
             this.countPerRow++;
-            if (storeLimit > -1 && this.countPerRow > (storeLimit + storeOffset)) {
-              // do what SEEK_NEXT_ROW does.
-              if (!matcher.moreRowsMayExistAfter(cell)) {
-                close(false);// Do all cleanup except heap.close()
-                return scannerContext.setScannerState(NextState.NO_MORE_VALUES).hasMoreValues();
-              }
-              matcher.clearCurrentRow();
-              seekToNextRow(cell);
-              break LOOP;
-            }
 
             // add to results only if we have skipped #storeOffset kvs
             // also update metric accordingly
@@ -670,6 +659,17 @@ public class StoreScanner extends NonReversedNonLazyKeyValueScanner
                 LOG.warn(message);
                 throw new RowTooBigException(message);
               }
+
+              if (storeLimit > -1 && this.countPerRow >= (storeLimit + storeOffset)) {
+                // do what SEEK_NEXT_ROW does.
+                if (!matcher.moreRowsMayExistAfter(cell)) {
+                  close(false);// Do all cleanup except heap.close()
+                  return scannerContext.setScannerState(NextState.NO_MORE_VALUES).hasMoreValues();
+                }
+                matcher.clearCurrentRow();
+                seekToNextRow(cell);
+                break LOOP;
+              }
             }
 
             if (qcode == ScanQueryMatcher.MatchCode.INCLUDE_AND_SEEK_NEXT_ROW) {
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestMaxResultsPerColumnFamily.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestMaxResultsPerColumnFamily.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d8a10bfca5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestMaxResultsPerColumnFamily.java
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseClassTestRule;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtil;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Admin;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ColumnFamilyDescriptorBuilder;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Put;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ResultScanner;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Table;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.TableDescriptor;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.TableDescriptorBuilder;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.testclassification.MediumTests;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
+import org.junit.AfterClass;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.ClassRule;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
+import org.junit.rules.TestName;
+
+@Category(MediumTests.class)
+public class TestMaxResultsPerColumnFamily {
+
+  @ClassRule
+  public static final HBaseClassTestRule CLASS_RULE =
+    HBaseClassTestRule.forClass(TestMaxResultsPerColumnFamily.class);
+
+  private static final byte [][] FAMILIES = {
+    Bytes.toBytes("1"), Bytes.toBytes("2")
+  };
+
+  private static final byte [][] VALUES = {
+    Bytes.toBytes("testValueOne"), Bytes.toBytes("testValueTwo")
+  };
+
+  private static final HBaseTestingUtil UTIL = new HBaseTestingUtil();
+
+  @BeforeClass
+  public static void setUpBeforeClass() throws Exception {
+    UTIL.startMiniCluster(1);
+  }
+
+  @AfterClass
+  public static void tearDownAfterClass() throws Exception {
+    UTIL.shutdownMiniCluster();
+  }
+
+  @Rule
+  public TestName name = new TestName();
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSetMaxResultsPerColumnFamilySimple() throws Exception {
+    TableName tableName = TableName.valueOf(name.getMethodName());
+    Admin admin = UTIL.getAdmin();
+    ColumnFamilyDescriptorBuilder cfBuilder0 =
+    ColumnFamilyDescriptorBuilder.newBuilder(FAMILIES[0]);
+
+    TableDescriptor tableDescriptor =
+      TableDescriptorBuilder.newBuilder(tableName).setColumnFamily(cfBuilder0.build()).build();
+    admin.createTable(tableDescriptor);
+    try (Table table = UTIL.getConnection().getTable(tableName)) {
+
+      for (int i = 0; i < 30000; i++) {
+        byte[] ROW = Bytes.toBytes("" + i);
+        Put p = new Put(ROW);
+
+        p.addColumn(FAMILIES[0], Bytes.toBytes("" + 1), VALUES[1]);
+        p.addColumn(FAMILIES[0], Bytes.toBytes("" + 2), VALUES[0]);
+
+        table.put(p);
+      }
+    }
+
+    try (Table t = UTIL.getConnection().getTable(tableName)) {
+      int expected = 30000;
+
+      Scan limits = new Scan().setReadType(Scan.ReadType.PREAD);
+      limits.setMaxResultsPerColumnFamily(1);
+
+      int count1 = countScanRows(t, limits);
+      assertEquals(expected, count1);
+    }
+  }
+
+  static int countScanRows(Table t, Scan scan) throws Exception {
+
+    int count = 0;
+    try(ResultScanner scanner = t.getScanner(scan)) {
+      for(Result r:scanner) {
+        count ++;
+      }
+    }
+    return count;
+  }
+}