Barron v. Boynton

In this action of assumpsit on a promissory note, at the return term of the Superior Court the defendant C. Everett Boynton was defaulted and, the defendant Alice Buxton Boynton having filed a plea of general issue and for a brief statement of special matter of defense pleaded the statute of limitations, the case was referred under rule of court with right to except as to questions of law. The referee, after hearing, reported that the defendant Alice Buxton Boynton was entitled to judgment. Objections duly filed were overruled, the report accepted and exceptions reserved.

The note in suit, in…