Walker & Trenholm v. Laney

The opinion of, the court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Simpson.

The plaintiffs, respondents, brought the action below as assignees of an open account alleged to have been contracted by defendant with M. A. Wells for goods, wares, and merchandise, between the years 1872 and 1877, amounting in value to the sum of $874.58, and by the said Wells assigned to the plaintiffs. The action was commenced January 10, 1884, the plaintiffs alleging in their complain! the contracting of the account, the consideration, that it was duly assigned to them, that during the fall of 1881, the defendant,…