120 Ga. 530 | Ga. | 1904
This was a suit upon an open account, brought in the county court, and filed in that court on November 13, 1902. The defendant denied the alleged indebtedness,- and, on an appeal to the superior court from the judgment of the county court, offered an amendment, which was allowed, in which he set up as an additional defense that the plaintiff had extended the maturity of the account until October 1, 1902. Both parties, in the court below and also in this court, treated the time mentioned in the plea as that to which .payment had been extended as though it were a date subsequent to the bringing of the suit, and we have accord