House of Falcon, Inc. v. Gonzalez

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

House of Falcon, Inc. sued Jose H. Gonzalez, Lillie A. Gonzalez and Bego Enterprises, Inc. for royalty payments which purportedly accrued on an open account after the reproduction of certain musical compositions. Defendants denied these allegations and further asserted that the statute of limitations barred the plaintiff’s claim. Recognizing that the limitations period for its claim had run, the plaintiff contended that the defendants had later acknowledged the barred debt; that the plaintiff was a third party beneficiary of a contract between the defendants and third…