Corbett v. Hoss

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court overruling a demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition. The action was upon an account more than three years old at the time the action was commenced, and the sole question is whether a certain letter written by the defendant to the plaintiff was sufficient to toll the statute of limitations. The letter was as follows :

“Yours letter of the 14th at hand and will say in reply that it is impossible for me to pay any on my account at present I am sorrow that I have got in such shape but I have…