Thomason v. Wilcox

The verdict of the jury is conclusive of the only two controverted questions of fact-in this case, these being (a) whether Thomason owed or had paid the $278.82 account at the Wilcox Cash Store, and (b) whether the check for $77.75 had been tendered and accepted in full of Thomason’s indebtedness to Mrs. Wilcox. The decision of these two questions adversely to Thomason, so far from being decisive of this case, is, properly speaking, the point at which it begins.

Now the undisputed testimony is to the effect that Mrs. Wilcox had two stores, and the accounts due to each were as separately kept…