Rhode, Titchenal, Baumann & Scripter v. Shattuck

KIRSHBAUM, Judge.

Defendant, John B. Shattuck, appeals a judgment in the amount of $64,622 entered against him on plaintiff’s complaint for account stated. We affirm.

Plaintiff performed various accounting services for defendant and his five partnerships from April 1974 to March 9, 1977. Defendant was sent numerous bills for those services. He did not protest any of the bills, and admitted to plaintiff that he owed the sums charged and that the bills were unpaid. Plaintiff then filed its complaint for money owed. Defendant’s answer consisted solely of a general denial.

At trial defendant sought…