Roth v. Hebert

The defendant has appealed from a judgment against her on three promissory notes, made by her on twenty-second January, 1859, due all in the month of March 1860, to' the order of and endorsed by Mrs. Valery Hebert, and to the suit on which she pleaded the general denial. In this court she has filed the plea of prescription of five years.

Suit was instituted on the fifteenth October, 1866, and citation was served on fifteenth November following. No interruption of prescription appears, although the witnesses were interrogated as to a demand and promise of payment. Their answers show that the-…