Scott v. Caruth

In an action on an account stated, the plaintiff cited two items: 'one as half of loss on potatoes and onions, $172.98, and one as half of loss "on tobacco, $6,621.95, and the whole of the account was denied. The plaintiff was the only witness, and testified that all the other items of the account had been paid, and that these two were for half of the net losses upon two joint adventures; that in each of these adventures the plaintiff’s firm furnished the money and made the sales, while defendant made the purchases in the one adventure of potatoes and onions, which were sent down the river,…