Nelson v. Emery

Decided March 15, 1845

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1845-03-15

Book. Account. The action was commenced originally to the county court, and was sent out to an auditor, from whose report it appeared that the debit side of the plaintiff’s account was made to exceed one hundred dollars by reckoning in, as a part of it, the amount of a bill of $37.75, for goods purchased by the - plaintiff for the defendant in Portland; in June, 1842, and which were paid for by the defendant, and the bill receipted, at the time the goods were delivered to…

Decided 1845-03-15

¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by

Redfield, J.

¶2The only question in the present case is, whether the bill of goods, of $37.75, purchased by the plaintiff in Portland for the defendant, and paid for and receipted at the time, and which was never charged in any account, unless the entry upon the bill presented before the auditor is so to be considered, can be treated as a portion of the plaintiff’s account at the commencement of the action.

¶3We think it is very obvious that it cannot. It never became matter of account, and had been absolutely paid and discharged long before this suit was brought.

¶4Judgment affirmed.