Beith v. McKenzie

Section 7408 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest provides: “In suits to foreclose or enforce mortgages or deeds of trust, it shall be sufficient defense that they have not been brought within the period of limitation prescribed by law for a suit on the debt or liability for the security of which they were given. Provided, when any payment is made on any such existing indebtedness before the same is barred by the statute of limitation, such payment shall not operate to revive said debts or to extend the operations of the statute of limitation, with reference thereto, so far as the same affects the…