Macke v. Davis

—This is an action on an open account, in which the plaintiff claims in his petition that the defendant is indebted to him in the sum of $146.40 for various items of work done and materials furnished, commencing in May, 1885, and ending August 10, 1889. The suit was instituted in the circuit court on the twenty-fifth day of October, 1893.

The answer of the defendant is a general denial, and a plea of the statute of limitations. By way of *525counterclaim it was alleged that, in 1893, the plaintiff presented to the defendant an account of $59.30 which he paid- upon the representations of the…