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18 Vt. 53

Munson v. Rice

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided September 15, 1844

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1844-09-15

An auditor was appointed by the county court, who reported, that the plaintiff presented before him an account, which commenced in 1828, and which amounted, with the interest, to $112,44, of which $101,05 accrued more than six years prior to the decease of the testatrix; that there was no interval of six years .between any two items of the account; that the plaintiff’s account contained no credits, and that .the defendant presented no claim against the .plaintiff, except a…

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently March 1900

2 state decisions

Relies on Hutchinson v. Pratt · Chipman v. Bates

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Decided 1844-09-15

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¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hebard, J.

¶2The main question in this case was settled in the case of Hutchinson et at. v. Pratt, Adm’r, 2 Vt. 146, and affirmed in the case of Chipman v. Bates, 5 Vt. 143.

¶3The plaintiff, however, claims that the payment of the sum of fifteen dollars in 1831 was equivalent to an admission on the part of the defendant, at that time, that there was an unsettled account between the parties. But this does not seem to relieve him from the embarrasment imposed upon him by the decisions referred to; for if the defendant’s testatrix made a new promise in 1831, the liability arising from that is as limited as the original liabilty, and would only avail to keep off the operation of the statute of limitations until 1837; and the testatrix having deceased in 1841, the whole effect of the admission made in 1831 would have been lost before her decease. We do not see, therefore, that the plaintiff stands in any different position in the case, in respect of the promise made in 1831.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

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