LaSalle Extension University v. Barr

This action is upon a judgment rendered more than twenty years before the commencement of this action, but upon which judgment payments were made, the last being less than twenty years before such commencement. The solo question involved, therefore, is whether partial payment of a judgment operates to toll the statute of limitations. This question has not been decided in this state, and other jurisdictions, that have passed upon it, are divided.

Payment on a judgment debt suspends the running of the statute of limitations in Arkansas, Kentucky and New York. Lindsay v. Merrill, 36 Ark. 545;…