Tolle v. Smith's
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 76 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL FROM DAVErSS CIRCUIT COURT. 1. Such an action as this must be upon the new promise and not upon the old contract from which the defendant has been discharged by proceedings in bankruptcy.
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Case 76 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL FROM DAVErSS CIRCUIT COURT. 1. Such an action as this must be upon the new promise and not upon the old contract from which the defendant has been discharged by proceedings in bankruptcy. (Ogden v. Redd, 13 Bush, 581; Carson v. Osborne, 10 B. M., 155; Egbert v. McMiehael, 9 B. M., 44; Mason v. Hughart, Idem., 482; Graham v. Hunt, 8 B. M., 8.) 2. The evidence shows a promise to pay as soon as able, and such a, qualified promise will not support an averment of an unqualified promise. A suit on such qualified promise must set it up specifically and then aver…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT.
September 15, 1893, John II. Beals, executor of John C. Smith, brought this action against S. R. Tolle. In his petition, after alleging execution of a promissory note June 3, 1878, for $189.63 by defendant to his testator, plaintiff states that he paid defendant thereon, June 4,1878, $9.63; December 25, 1885, $10, and August 2, 1887, $5, all of which payments were endorsed on the back of the note; and that he, at the dates of the two last payments promised said Smith to pay the debt, and has repeatedly, both before and since, promised to pay same.…
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