J. W. Carter Co. v. Pierce

J. W. Carter Company, a corporation, brought this suit against Louis Pierce upon an account purporting to be an invoice of a certain lot of shoes, sold by Carter Company to Pierce, in which the prices agreed upon were set out. Such account" was duly itemized and verified as provided for by article 3736, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925.

Defendant answered by general denial and by special plea as follows:

“For further and special answer wherein this defendant alleges that he purchased of plaintiff the goods described in the itemized account- attached to plaintiff’s petition, upon the…