Stotler Company v. Buttram

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the granting of a directed verdict in favor of defendant. Affirmed.

The complaint alleged that defendant owed plaintiff $213.00 on an open account. The $213.00 supposedly represented losses and commissions due on plaintiff’s account trading in hog futures. Defendant answered by pleading the general issue.

At pre-trial it was stipulated that certain business records of plaintiff would be admissible. These records consisted of statements of account addressed to defendant and margin requests instructing defendant that his account was undermargined.…