Smith v. Brown

The defendant is- appellant from a judgment rendered against him as tutor of his minor child, William R. Brown, upon a claim for professional services rendered by the plaintiff as an attorney-at-law in two suits in which the interests of the minor were involved. The basis of the suit is an open account in which the claim for services is set forth. The defence rests upon the pleas of novation and prescription.

We consider the plea of prescription untenable, as it is shown that the correctness of the demand has been acknowledged by the tutor -within the last two years, and the only proof of the…