Little v. . Shores

Each payment made on the account stopped the running of the statute of limitations against all prior items then within date, and the payment made in November, 1938 — the first payment made after the last delivery of milk — fixed a new terminus a quo for the beginning of the running of the statute of limitations as to all items of the account which had been kept in date by payments theretofore made.

“So a partial payment, though the evidence need not be in writing, being an act and not a mere declaration, revives the liability because it is deemed a recognition of it and an assumption anew of…