Bibb Basket Co. v. Eufaula Bank & Trust Co.

The Eufaula Bank & Trust Company of Eufaula, .Alabama, as transferee and assignee of Ross Basket Company, a corporation of Alabama, sued Bibb Basket Company, a corporation of Georgia, for the principal sum of $1660, alleged to be due on an open account for baskets shipped by the Ross Basket Company upon an order of the Bibb Basket Company, which account had been assigned to the Eufaula Bank & Trust Company. *395The suit therefore sounded in contract. The defendant filed a plea in which it denied liability, and by amendment “further answering and as a plea of recoupment to said claim” alleged that…