Bennett-Brewer Hardware Co. v. Wakeman

The sole inquiry here is whether the prescription of 3 years applicable to accounts may be orally interrupted. The answer to the question requires the interpretation of Act 78 of 1S88, amending and re-enacting Civ. Code, art. 3538. Prior to its amendment, the codal article read, in part, as follows:

“The following actions are prescribed by three years: * * * That on all other open accounts.

“This prescription only ceases from the time there has been an account acknowledged, a note or bond given, or an action commenced.”

The amendatory statute substituted for the words “all other open accounts”…