Fries v. Boisselet
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia county, in which judgment was rendered for the defendant, and the opinion of the President of the court was filed at the request of the plaintiff., The suit was originally brought before John Geyer, Esquire,' one of the aldermen of the ■ city of Philadelphia, who rendered judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed to the Court of Common Pleas.
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IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia county, in which judgment was rendered for the defendant, and the opinion of the President of the court was filed at the request of the plaintiff., The suit was originally brought before John Geyer, Esquire,' one of the aldermen of the ■ city of Philadelphia, who rendered judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed to the Court of Common Pleas. The action was brought on a promissory note, dated the 12th October, 1811, drawn by Eugene Boisselet, the defendant, in fa-vour of John Fries, the plaintiff, for the sum of 60…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the couft was' delivered by
TilghmaN, C. J.
This is an action on a promissory note drawn by the defendant, payable to the plaintiff. Six years having elapsed, in consequence of which a recovery was barred by the act of limitations, the plaintiff commenced his action, and the defendant after he was arrested, said, “ that he owed the plaintiff the money, and intended to have paid him, but that he had taken ungentlemanly steps to get-it, and as he had taken those steps he would keep him out of it as long ás he could.” The defendant pleaded the statute of limitations, on which issue…
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