Teat v. Westmoreland

1. A running open account, the items of which have all matured at the time of the suit, can not be divided into separate parts for the purpose of bringing each part within the jurisdiction of a justice’s court, without the consent of the-defendant; but where such an account is divided into three parts, or rather where, at the request of the defendant and for his convenience (he wanting separate accounts kept of what . his son and two hands got), three separate accounts against him are kept on the books, and these accounts, amounting in the aggregate to more than one hundred dollars, are sued…