Ward v. Hallam

*329This was an action brought on a promissory note, wherein judgment was entered for the plaintiff, subject to a point reserved, which shortly was:

The plaintiff was a citizen of South Carolina and the defendant a citizen of Pennsylvania for above six years previous *3301 to * commencement of the suit. The doubt was, -* whether the act of limitations barred the plaintiff from a recovery of his demand? The point was argued at the last April term, by Mr. Rawle for the plaintiff, and Dallas for the defendant.

On the part of the plaintiff, it was urged, that the construction of the act of assembly of 37th…