Haynor Manufacturing Co. v. Davis

Clark, O. J.

This action was begun before a justice of tbe peace to recover tbe value of goods sold. Tbe defendant sets up orally a counterclaim, or payment, as follows, which presents tbe only question before us: “The defendant denied that he owed tbe plaintiff anything and pleaded payment in full of all accounts, and set up as a reason, among other things, that the goods for which the account was made was, in part, 'Buchu Tonic/ and that at the time he purchased it from the plaintiff the plaintiff’s salesman, R. D. Guy, had represented the said 'Buchu Tonic’ to the defendant as nonalcoholic…