Couger v. Griffin

John Vernon Couger instituted this suit against Dr. H. E. Griffin to recover an amount claimed to be due on an open account for fence posts alleged to have been sold and delivered to defendant. The only complaint made on his appeal is of the action of the trial judge in allowing certain offsets and credits which exceeded the account sued on.

The account sued on was for fence posts sold to the defendant by John Couger, who transferred and assigned the account to John Vernon Couger, plaintiff; and the offsets and credits which were allowed the defendant were held to be chargeable originally…