Shackleford v. Douglass
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from tbe Circuit Court of Madison county. Hon. E. Gr. Henry, judge. Tbe pleadings are sufficiently stated in tbe opinion of the court.
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In error from tbe Circuit Court of Madison county. Hon. E. Gr. Henry, judge. Tbe pleadings are sufficiently stated in tbe opinion of the court. Tbe evidence introduced' by the plaintiff to establish a subsequent promise, to save the bar of tbe Statute of Limitations, is as follows: Robert J. Hall, stated, “that in tbe summer of 1850, be called on Norvall Douglass, one of tbe makers of tbe note or bond sued on, at tbe instance of Patsey S. Hall, bis mother, and demanded payment of tbe same; that then and there the said Douglass stated that he would pay said note, and that it was a just debt…
1Opinion of the Court
*97Upon the first argument of the cause the following opinion was delivered by
Fisher, J.
— This was an action in the Circuit Court of Madison county, founded upon a writing obligatory, executed by Norval Douglass and W. H. Crenshaw, payable to Henry S. Douglass, in trust for Mrs. Patsey S. Hall, for the sum of $1,760, and due the 8th day of April, 1838. The Statute of Limitations of seven years was relied on as a defence in the court below. The answer to the complaint avers, that the cause of action did not accrue to the plaintiff within seven years next before the commencement of the suit. The…
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