Blaylock v. Stephens

This is a suit on an account for $223.65, brought before a justice of the peace. The justice gave judgment for plaintiff for that amount. On appeal the Circuit Judge, trying the case without a jury, rendered judgment for plaintiff for the same amount. Defendant appealed in error.

Plaintiff was owner and operator of the Tullahoma Machine Shop, and the account was for work done by him on a motor truck of defendant. Defendant did. not deny the account or dispute the amount of it. His defense was that after the work was done on his truck he had sold *466it to his brother, and that there had been a…