Legal Opinion

Mowry v. Harris

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided March 17, 1894PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Assumpsit. Certified from the Common Pleas Division on demurrer to replication.

1Opinion of the CourtTillinghast, J.

This is assumpsit to recover the amount claimed to be due on a promissory note for the sum of $221, dated April 6th, 1885, and payable on demand with interest.

In addition to the plea of the general issue the defendant has filed two pleas in bar, in the first of which he s'ets up that at any time within six years he never promised in manner and form as the plaintiff has declared against him, and in the second of which he 'Sets up that the plaintiff’s cause of action, if any he has, did not accrue to him at any time within six years next before the commencement of his said action, to which said…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Tarbox v. FisherSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1863
  2. Stone v. SpillmanTexas Supreme Court · 1856
  3. State ex rel. Calvert v. WilliamsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1850
  4. Skinner v. . BlandSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1882
  5. Jones v. DyerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1852

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In Re Estate of TaylorSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1975

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