Raymond Bros. v. Williams
Raymond Bros. v. Williams
Opinion of the Court
The first item of charge against defendants in the account is of the date of April 18, 1864, the last March 28, 1868. The items of the account both debit and credit are numerous, showing almost daily transactions. The balance of the account at the expiration of six months from the date last mentioned as shown therein is $2,522.21 in favor of plaintiffs. Within these six months large payments are entered in the account to the credit of defendants, and after their expiration other large credits are also given. The account was often balanced during the time of the transactions, and bills, made of the items, were presented to defendants.
I. The plaintiffs insist that interest should have been allowed upon the account from the day each bill of items was
II; We understand'from tlie result of the court’s fiuding as exhibited in the amount of the - judgment, that interest was allowed upon the amount due on the account, after six months from the date of the last debit item, and payments made thereafter, with proper allowance of interest, were deducted therefrom. The court’s finding as set out in the abstract is hardly intelligible when read in connection with the account sued on. It refers to payments made after 'May 13, 1812. • No such payments are shown in the abstract. Certain payments were •made between September 28, 1868, and May 13, 1872. The last item in the account on the credit side is of .the date last
But plaintiff insists that the court should have allowed interest on a larger sum. The account shows that on the 28th of September, 1868, $2,522.21 were due; but the court finds $425.41, as the balance on that day. This is readily accounted for; the court found that the credits of the defendants were'not correctly given 'in the account, and that one item,, entered subsequently to the 2&th of September, was paid before that date, and so considered it in making up the judgment. This is readily discovered by an inspection of the -account and -the findings of the court. At all events the court found $425.11 tobe due September 28, 1868; this, sum with interest from that day, less -credits and interest thereon, as found by .the court, is the amount of the judgment. -The evidence in the case is not before us; the correctness of the court’s'findings -upon the-facts cannot, therefore, be questioned.. ' , ;
- Counsel on both sides argue the case; as though the court calculated the interest from the date of.the last credit item in the account, and not from September 28,1868, six months after the date of the last.debit item. But, in the'fact assumed, they are evidently mistaken.
We are not called upon to decide under which, of the rules interest should be calculated. The plaintiffs do not object to
Affirmed.
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