Case ID: la-ann_19/html/0071-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Howell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 1198.
    S. R. Stribling v . C. D. Stewart.
    In a suit upon un open account, composed of distinct contracts, not exceeding five hundred dollars each, one witness to each item is sufficient, although the aggregate amounts to more than five hundred dollars.
    A PPEAL from the District Court, Parish of Pointe Coupee, Cooley, J.
    
      Beatty & Yoist, for plaintiff and appellee.
    
      Edward Phillips, for defendant and appellant.
   Howell, J.

This is a suit upon an open account, composed of various items sold at different dates, and the only question presented by counsel of defendant and appellant, is whether or not the proof is sufficient—one witness only having testified to the correctness of each item, no one of which is over $500, although the aggregate is considerably over that sum. The account sued on indicates clearly that there were separate and distinct contracts, at different dates, in relation to each item or several of them together, and the fact that the same person was witness to each of those contracts, does not affect the sufficiency of his testimony upon the whole account, so to require corroboration, as contemplated by Art. 2257 C. C. He may be regarded as a witness to prove several agreements relative to'personal property, embraced in one demand, no one of which exceeds $500, and for the aggregate of which judgment is authorized.

We think the proof is sufficient in law'.

Judgment affirmed.