Byrne, Vance & Co. v. Grayson

The plaintiffs, commission merchants in the city of New Orleans, sue the defendant, a cotton, planter, on an account-current for a balance of $5,960 45, and interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent, per annum from the 29th day of March, 1858. The account purports to be for the year 1857, and by the allowance of two additional credits, since the institution of suit, the amount in dispute is reduced to $5,812 22.

The first, sixth and seventh items of the account, it is contended, have not been proved, and the question presented at the threshold of the case is, whether these items have been…