Case ID: ill-app_211/html/0485-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

P. R. McLeod, trading as McLeod & Company, Appellant, v. Alexander J. Alexander and Lucas Brodhead, Trustees, Appellees.
    Gen. No. 23,821.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Account stated, § 4
      
       — what does not constitute. The mere sending of monthly statements of account does not make an account stated if the goods for which they were sent were not purchased.
    
      Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Harry P. Dolan, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed June 19, 1918.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by P. E. McLeod, trading as McLeod & Company, plaintiff, against Alexander J. Alexander and Lucas Brodhead, trustees of the estate of Alexander J. Alexander, and Ashland Block Association, a corporation, defendants, to recover an amount claimed to be due as the purchase price of certain goods. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
    Barnhardt & Stafford, for appellant.
    Ernest Severy, for appellees.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice O’Connor

delivered the opinion of the court.

2. Appeal and erbob, § 1410 — when judgment not distwrbed as against weight of evidence. In an action for the purchase price of goods where the evidence is conflicting and the Appellate Court cannot say that the finding was manifestly against the weight of the evidence, the' judgment will be affirmed.