Slack v. Sexton

1. Where letters acknowledged to have been written by the defendant are relied on to create a new promise to pay an existing open account which on its face is barred by the statute of limitations, such letters must, to have such effect, with reasonable certainty, of themselves connect the debt with the promise, and sufficiently identify the debt. By their words they must acknowledge the particular debt as an existing liability, in order to remove the bar of the statute.

Argued May 7, Decided May 25, 1901. Complaint on account. Before Judge Spence. Worth superior court. October 24, 1900.…