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3 Ky. Op. 406

Wintersmith v. Wintersmith

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided November 19, 1869

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1869-11-19

<p>Limitation of Actions — Accounts—Mutual Parments — Expected Set Off</p> <p>The statute of limitations does not run against actual payment or expected set-off.</p>

Decided 1869-11-19

¶1Opinion of the Court by

Judge Robertson:

¶2The appellee’s answer to the cross petition, setting up the appellant’s account as a set-off or payment, is evasive, and, when carefully scrutinized does not deny the services or the other facts charged in the account. The credits as claimed may be presumed to have been intended and understood by the parties as partial payments, for she says that, if the account was just, she had paid it. And whether there was actual payment, or only an expected set-off, the statute of limitaitons would not apply.

¶3We are therefore of the opinion that the account as exhibited should be adjudged a payment 'at the date of it, and consequently the circuit court erred in not allowing the appellant a credit pro tanto, or granting a re-bearing.

¶4Wherefore the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded with leave to the appellee to file an amended answer and for further proceedings for litigating the appellant’s account.

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