Phillips-Jones Corp. v. Caskey

Plaintiff brought this suit to collect of defendant the sum of $752.66 due on open account. The defendant in answer admitted the correctness of the account, but alleged that the said account had been paid. Enlarging his plea of payment, defendant alleged that there had been a transaction or compromise of the claim at 2'5 cents on the dollar,- and that, in accordance with that transaction and compromise, a check for 25 per cent, of the claim had been sent to and received by defendant.

As the correctness of the account is not disputed, it is necessary to consider only the question whether there…