Legal Opinion
Hall v. Brown
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided July 20, 1920PublishedCited by 5 opinions
A writ of error to the Circuit Court for Dade County, H. Pierre Branning, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtBrowne, C. J.
On August 29, 1914, the plaintiff in error as plaintiff below brought suit against the defend*482ant in error William M. Brown, on a promissory note for four thousand dollars dated October 28, 1907, payable six months after daté.
The defendant pleaded the five year statute of limitations. The plaintiff filed two replications setting up in the first that within three years before the commencement of the action, the defendant by certain letters attached to the replication acknowledged the existence of the debt, his liability for and promise to pay it. The second was the same except that it alleged…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Shepherd v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
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