Glasgow v. Stevenson

This is an action on an open account, to recover the value of goods alleged to been sold to the defendant in the year whilst both parties resided in Ireland, from whence the debtor absented himself soon after the purchase. ' r

The answer to the petition contains a general denial and plea of prescription; and in a supplement, interrogatories are put to the plaintiff, in relation to an acceptance or note of the defendant for the amount now claimed from him on open account. These interrogatories were answered by acknowledging the existence of the bill of exchange and acceptance, which the…