Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. Jacobs

Defendant is engaged in business in New Orleans as a real estate agent. Plaintiff sues for $1,884.32, hs the balance due on an open account covering various real estate advertisements published for account of defendant from Au*2gust 7, 1927, to and including July 5, 1928. Attached to plaintiff’s petition is a detailed account showing the amount of each item and outlining the nature of each advertisement.

In answer to this petition, defendant admitted that advertisements had, from time to time, been published for his account, but he denied the correctness of the itemized statement. It should be…