McKenzie v. Stevens

We think the court properly admitted the declarations of Peter McKenzie, made at the time of his purchasing the articles, in the year 1846. The bill of exceptions discloses that in the year 1844, Peter McKenzie, a youth, the son of said John McKenzie, was at school at Tuskegee, fourteen miles distant from his father’s residence, and that during that year he purchased goods from the plaintiff, which by his direction were charged on account to his father, who, about January,- 1845, paid the account without expressing any disapprobation, or giving any notice not to credit any further; that the…