Rapides Grocery Co. v. Clopton

O’NIELL, C. J.. The Rapides Grocery Company sued B. W. Clopton for $20S on an open account for cotton seed sold to Clopton, amounting to $450, less $250 paid on account, and plus $8 interest. The interest item is not in dispute. Clop-ton admitted, in answer to the suit, that the account was correct as far as it went, but averred that he, being a farmer, had bought also from the Rapides Grocery Company, at the same time v’hen he bought the cotton seed, 40 bushels of soy beans, for seed, at $4.50 per bushel, amounting to $180; and that, notwithstanding an express and implied guaranty that the…