Clare v. Freedman

For some twenty years before 1932 the plaintiff had purchased goods of the defendant upon a running account upon which the former made payments from time to time. In 1924 the plaintiff loaned the defendant $3000, which was unpaid in December, 1932. He asked the defendant for a settlement and the latter prepared and presented to him a statement of account, showing $810.39 to be due the plaintiff. In this statement were included three charges against the plaintiff for interest upon the sums due upon the open account, amounting in all to $317.44. The defendant at the same time gave the plaintiff…