Martin v. Jennings

This case turns upon the plea of prescription; for, admitting the deposition offered on behalf of the defendant which was rejected below, the plea of compensation is not satisfactorily established.

A little more than five years had elapsed from the maturity of the note sued on, when the defendant was cited in the parish of Caldwell.

But the plaintiffs alleged in their petition that since the note was executed the maker absconded from his residence in Tennessee, where the debt was contracted, for the purpose of eluding his creditors and particularly the plaintiffs,, and that they had but…