Renfroe v. Johnson

STOKES, Justice.

The record in this case shows that at the December 1942 term of the district court, appellee, Ruby Johnson, joined by her husband, and four children by a former marriage, filed suit against appellants on four promissory notes aggregating $3,727.28. One of the notes was due and payable in 1921, one due and payable in 1923, and the other two were due and payable in 1924, Appellants filed an answer in which they pleaded the four-year statute of limitation, Article 5527, R.C.S.1925, whereupon ap-pellees immediately took a nonsuit and the court dismissed the case without prejudice.…