Powell v. Rockwell

This case comes here from the Burlington city court. The action is contract in the form of general counts with specifications. The complaint contains the additional allegations that the plaintiff is the actual bona fide owner of the account stated in the specifications, said account having been assigned to him on a certain day by one Hill for money loaned to said Hill by the plaintiff. The answer was the general denial. There was a trial by court with judgment for defendant.

The plaintiff offered to show by Hill that witness sold the defendant the goods described in the specifications. The…