D. Jaynes & Son v. Sheffield
D. Jaynes & Son v. Sheffield
Opinion of the Court
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs against the defendant on an open account for the sum of $102 87 for medicines received by the defendants to sell on commission for the plaintiffs. On the trial of the case, as it appears from the evidence in the record, the defendant received from the plaintiffs the medicines embraced in the account prior to 1860, to sell on commission; that he sold most of them during the war, and had a small portion of them on hand at the time of the trial. In September, 1860, defendant wrote a letter to the plaintiffs, in which he stated he had not sold but a small portion of their medicine, and that it was unnecessary to make any settlement at that time, but that he'would make a settlement as soon as he thought he had sold medicine enough to amount to anything. Plaintiffs made a demand on defendant for a settlement of the account some time in 1871. This suit on the account was commenced 7th August, 1872. The Court charged the jury, that if the medicines embraced in the plaintiff’s account were placed in the hands of the defendant by them prior to the war to be sold on commission, that suit
Let the judgment of the Court below be reversed.
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