Manning v. Wheeler
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, on an account annexed to the writ, for visits and medicines as a physician. Plea, the general issue and statute of limitations, to which the plaintiff replied a new promise.
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Assumpsit, on an account annexed to the writ, for visits and medicines as a physician. Plea, the general issue and statute of limitations, to which the plaintiff replied a new promise. The plaintiff produced a witness, who testified that within six years before the commencement of the suit, the defendant told him he had been unfortunate in business, and hád lost his property — that he owed debts which he was unable to pay, and mentioned the debt to the plaintiff among others, which he said he owed, but his son Edward, for whose benefit it was contracted, ought to pay it — that all the claims…
1Opinion of the Court
Gilchrist, J.. The evidence upon which the plaintiff re*487lies, is, that the defendant said he owed debts which he was unable to pay — that he owed the plaintiff, among others— that all the claims against him were just, and if he were able he should be willing to pay all his debts.
The first part of this acknowledgment, that he owed debts which he was unable to pay, is not sufficient, of itself, to take the case out of the operation of the statute. Atwood vs. Coburn, 4 N. H. Rep. 315. To this the defendant added, that all the claims against him were just, and if he were able, he should be willing…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Betton v. CuttsSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1840
- Doty v. HawkinsSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1833
- Atwood v. CoburnSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1828
- Russell v. CoppSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1830
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