not being denied, has been further corroborated by making a suggestion to the same effect by the defendant in the crossexamination of PW-1. As such, the statement of account, which is at Ex.P-2, is a statement of a running account of the defendant with the plaintiff. A large number of entries of both debit and credit are recorded in the said document, which admittedly have not been disputed by the defendant. As and when the supplies were made, they were showing as the liability to be cleared by the defendant and as and when the defendant was making the payment, the credits of the same were given to his account and outstanding liability was being reduced proportionately. Thus, it is not only the oral evidence of PW-1, but, also the documentary evidence at Ex.P-2, which shows that it is a running account and at the end of March 2001, the outstanding due of the defendant towards the plaintiff was a sum of 41,076.15 ps. It is in that regard, the legal notices were sent to the defendant, the copies of which are produced at Ex.P-3 and also at Ex.P-10. Thus, within three years, when the liability of the defendant at 41,076.15 ps. was crystalised on 31.03.2011, the plaintiff had instituted the suit in
