Byrne, Vance & Co. v. Prather

These suits have been consolidated and tried together in this court, by consent of parties. The first named was commenced on an acknowledged account, in favor of Byrne <& Co., for the amount of three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-four cents, to which defendant pleaded the prescription of three and five years, which was sustained, and judgment rendered against plaintiffs’ demand.

The account sued on is that of a cotton factor against a planter, for plantation supplies, and was acknowledged in writing by the defendant to be correct, in the following form, to-wit:

“Bastrop, 16th May,…