Ivey v. Gilliland

PREWITT, Presiding Judge.

The question presented is whether an acknowledgment of a debt and promise to pay it later causes the statute of limitations to run from the date of the acknowledgment and promise or to run from the time that promise was to be fulfilled.

Defendant rented a house from plaintiff for $150 a month from May 1980 through December 1980. There was no written agreement. Rent was due on the first day of each month. By an undated letter delivered prior to December 30,1980, defendant notified plaintiff that he would be vacating the premises. In the letter defendant told plaintiff…