50 So. 865 | Miss. | 1909
delivered the opinion of the court.
The court erred in not allowing the contents of the orders-, for lumber to be introduced in evidence: The appellant had stated that he had received these orders in writing, and that-they had been burned, and that he had made diligent search for the same, and could not find them. It was further testified, and not denied anywhere in the record, that the -lumber was sold on sixty days’ time; the lumber constituting the offset’ of the defendant.
This suit was instituted March 25, 1909; the summons was-served April 1, 1909; the offset was filed April I, 1§09. The account began October 21, 1905, and ended February 16, 1906. If, therefore, it was true, as testified, that the lumber was sold' on sixty days’ time, the. last items of the account would be due-sixty days after February 16, 1906; that is to say, on April 14, 1906. Under the three year statute of limitations, therefore, the one here pleaded, the account would not have been entirely-