The Collegian v. Hileman

COLER, Justice.

This is an action commenced in the District County Court for the recovery of the sum due for advertising of a business known as “Horatio’s”, a beer tavern in Brookings, South Dakota, in the student newspaper owned by the South Dakota State University Student Association. The defendant’s amended answer admitted that demand for payment had been made of him but was otherwise in the form of a general denial.

The action was tried to the court without a jury. The amount of the debt having been the subject of a stipulation and the bookkeeping records, a ledger account, having been…