Legal Opinion
Hicks v. Lusk & Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided January 15, 1858PublishedCited by 6 opinions
Error to Pulaski Circuit Court. Hon. John J. Clenbenin, Circuit Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice English
On the 7th May 1857, Lusk & Co. commenced an action of assumpsit against Allen W. Hicks and Isaac C. Mills, late partners under the firm name of A. W. Hicks & Co., in the Pulaski Circuit Court.
The action was founded on an open account — a bill of groceries amounting to $663 66, sold by the plaintiffs to the defendants on the 18th of April, 1854.
In addition to the general issue pleaded by both of the defendants, the defendant Hicks interposed a separate plea of the statute of limitations of three years; to which the plaintiffs replied part payment within the bar, etc.
On the trial, before the…
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