Administrators of Quince v. Administrators of Ross

JOHNSTON, Judge.

This bond was given in 1764, payable, H in Docerriber, 176.4;. in 1777 the obligor died ; letters of administration issued in 1778, in the month of January; in 1754 the admistrator died, and in 1798 new letters were issued to the present defendant, ■ Tire rule is that after 20 years acquiescence presumption of payment shall arise, but if any circumstances can be offered to account for the delay, these’ shall hinder the pre, sumption. Now here from 1773 to the first of June 1784, the bourn were shut up and the war intervened; after 17S4 till. 1794* when there was an…