Dillon v. Continental Trust Co.

H. T. Dillon, as trustee for the Keely Company Inc., filed suit against the Continental Trust Company in the municipal court of Atlanta, seeking to recover for goods sold and delivered on open account to the defendant from October 17, 1929, until November 11. The transfer of the account, having been made in writing, was attached to the petition. The defendant duly filed its answer and plea of set-off, which admitted the sum of $40 due on said account, but which sought by way of set-off to obtain credit in the amount of $373.10 (the suit being for $413.50). After hearing the evidence the trial…