Ridgeley v. Price
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court. — Rep. This action of assumpsit is brought on an account. Pleas, the general issue and the statute of limitations.
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APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court. — Rep. This action of assumpsit is brought on an account. Pleas, the general issue and the statute of limitations. The replication to the plea of the statute of limitations is designed to bring the case within the proviso contained in the 9th section of the act of 1796, which is in these words : “Provided, that if any person or persons, defendant or defendants to any of the aforesaid actions, shall abscond or conceal themselves, or by removal out of the country or the county where he or they do or…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
This action of assumpsit was brought in December, 1850, by William Price for William C. Price against Jane B. Ridgeley. The counts are in indebitatus assumpsit for money paid, loaned, and advanced by the plaintiff- to and for the defendant, at her request, in consideration of which they aver that she promised to pay, &c. The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit, and also that the cause of action had not accrued within five years before the commencement of the action. The replication to the second plea states, in substance, that in the beginning of the year 1841 the defendant in this state, and…
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