Hutchinson v. Pratt
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal from the allowance of commissioner* oa the estate of Timothy Cox, and came before the Court on the following statement of facts agreed to -by the parties r “The claim of the plaintiffs exhibited to said was a book account, for various articles from time to time taken up by said Cox, in his life-time, at the store of the plaintiffs, while partners in trade, in Woodstock, between the 13th of January, 1819, and the 4th day of June, A. D. 1824, amounting in…
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This was an appeal from the allowance of commissioner* oa the estate of Timothy Cox, and came before the Court on the following statement of facts agreed to -by the parties r “The claim of the plaintiffs exhibited to said was a book account, for various articles from time to time taken up by said Cox, in his life-time, at the store of the plaintiffs, while partners in trade, in Woodstock, between the 13th of January, 1819, and the 4th day of June, A. D. 1824, amounting in the whole to the sum of $169 58: in which account of the plaintiffs there are various items of credit, amounting in all to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Paddock, J.
It appears that Hutchinson & Dunham were merchants, transacting business in company in Woodstock, from the year IS19 to 1824; and between September, 1819, and 30th of August, 1823, employed the deceased, Timothy Cox, to do services for them ; that Hutchinson & Dunham, during that period, and up to June, 1824, kept an open account with him, wherein their charges amounted to $196,58, and had given him credit to nearly that amount. It would seem that Cox was either an illiterate man, not capable of keeping a book account, or had placed…
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