Walker v. Industrial Stores Co.

In an action on an account in a justice’s court, a copy of the account attached to the summons contained only a date, the names of the parties, and the following words and figures: “To acct. rend. $94.48.” The defendant filed a timely special demurrer upon the ground that the account was not properly itemized nor set forth with the particularity required by law. Whereupon the plaintiff amended by itemizing $14.41 of the account, and by alleging that, as to $55.65 for “bal. acct. as per slips del.,” charged as of a certain date, “the said defendant agreed with the agent of the plaintiff on the…