Shultz v. Houghton
Supreme Court of Louisiana
PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. x ÜL Monroe, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
Defendant is sued upon an account due in 1875.
His defense is a general denial and proscription of three and five years.
Evidence was offered to establish an acknowledgment of the account, for the double purpose of showing that it became an account stated, prescriptible only by ten years, and also an interruption of prescription.
For the first purpose the evidence is manifestly insufficient, since it appears from plaintiff’s own testimony that defendant never acknowledged the correctness of the account, but said he would have to look over his…
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