Beam v. Monsanto Co., Inc.

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This is an appeal by Jim Beam and Bill Beam, d/b/a Beam Brothers Contractors, Inc., from a circuit court order sustaining a demurrer to their counterclaim, as amended, in a suit filed by the appellee, Monsanto Company, Inc., for balance owned on open account. The final demurrer from which comes this appeal was on the grounds that the counterclaim, as amended, failed to state a cause of action under Ark. Stat. Ann. §§ 70-301 — 70-307 (Repl. 1957), and because the relief sought under the counterclaim, as amended, was barred by the statute of limitations. The trial court…