Dugan v. Longstaff

The plaintiff, a meat and grocery dealer, brought this action to recover for goods alleged by him to have been sold and delivered to the defendant. In addition to a general denial, the answer pleaded the Statute of Limitations and payment. At the trial before the justice of the peace the plaintiff had judgment for the amount of his demand and costs, in all eighty-two dollars and forty cents, from which defendant has appealed.

Hugh B. Dugan, the plaintiff, was sworn in his own behalf.- He testified in substance that in dealing with the defendant his custom was to make duplicate slips of the…