135 Mo. App. 654 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1909
(after stating the facts). — We are unable to distinguish this case in any of its phases from that of Loeffel v. Hoss, 11 Mo. App. 133. Commencing an account for án ordinary butcher’s or mar-ketman’s bill in January, 1892, the transactions between appellant and respondent ran along until the
The learned counsel for the appellant cites among many other cases, the case of Chadwick v. Chadwick, 115 Mo. 581, in support of his contention that the defendant’s set-off, being based upon a mutual, open and current account, embracing reciprocal demands between the parties, was not barred by the five-year Statute of Limitations, for the reason that the last item on the account, May 4, 1907, was but a continuation of and an item in an open, running account, and that therefore the whole account is brought within the statute. The decisions in Chadwick v. Chadwick, supra, and in the other cases there cited, do not sustain this contention. In Chadwick v. Chadwick, our Supreme Court said at page 587, that the dealings between the parties continued with mutual debits and credits between them; that while one line of dealing with reference to certain cattle had ceased, yet that the proof .was clear, that after that the plaintiff had continued to borrow money from the defendant; that sometimes he paid it back in a few days, but that it stands admitted that he still owes defendant something on account of different sums so borrowed, after the close of the cattle transactions between them, and that there is certainly evidence tending to show that the dealings