Columbia Grocery Co. v. Marshall

The case was'brought to collect.on an open account. Notes had been executed by defendant covering the account but materially altered by complainants. The *272case involves tlie question as to whether snit can be maintained on the original account.

The Columbia Grocery Company is a partnership composed of Mose and Ben Lazarons, doing a wholesale grocery business at Columbia, Tenn. Defendant O. M. Marshall was a retail merchant at Campbell’s. Station, in Maury County, and for several years had purchased goods of the complainants, and a running account had existed for considerable time. Complainants…