Wigg v. Dooley

KEY, Associate Justice.

Suit upon a verified account; judgment for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The main question relied on for reversal is the contention that the plaintiff’s cause of action was barred by limitation. The debt matured January 10, 1899, and the plaintiff filed his petition January 8, 1901. This lacked two days of being two years after the maturity of the debt. In order to stop the running of the statute of limitation, the law required the plaintiff to bring suit within two years from the accrual of his cause of action. Suits are commenced in the district and county…