Jones v. Harris
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tate County. Hon. Samuel Powell, Judge. J. A. Harris brought this action, in March, 1880, to recover the amount of certain open accounts declared fo have been due by W. E. P. Jones, some individually and the others jointly with certain other persons, which accounts had been assigned by the firm of J. A. Harris & Co., composed of Harris, Jones, and one J. C. Graham, who had been engaged in a mercantile business in 1874 and 1875, to said…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tate County. Hon. Samuel Powell, Judge. J. A. Harris brought this action, in March, 1880, to recover the amount of certain open accounts declared fo have been due by W. E. P. Jones, some individually and the others jointly with certain other persons, which accounts had been assigned by the firm of J. A. Harris & Co., composed of Harris, Jones, and one J. C. Graham, who had been engaged in a mercantile business in 1874 and 1875, to said Harris, upon a settlement of the partnership business, made in October, 1877. The defendant, Jones, filed a special plea…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The award pleaded constituted a-bar to the further prosecution of the action. The matter involved in the action was a matter of accounts between the parties. The foundation of the action was several open accounts against the defendant which had been assigned to the plaintiff. 1 The special plea avers that there were other matters of account between the parties, and that the plaintiff was largely indebted to the defendant, and that they agreed “to leave the settlement of the'difference each one claimed in regard .to final settlement of accounts betwéen them ”to arbitrators, “ who wei-e to take…
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