76 Mass. 35
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 15, 1857
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1857-11-15
Action of contract for services claimed to have been rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant while the latter was administrator of the estate of Dr. Spaulding, more than six years before the date of the plaintiff’s writ.
Relies on Purdy v. Austin
Decided 1857-11-15
¶1The statute bar to the action is not removed by the defendant’s letter to the plaintiff, which neither acknowledges that she has a legal claim against him, nor makes any "promise to pay her claim. See Bangs v. Hall, 2 Pick. 368; Bailey v. Crane, 21 Pick. 323; Purdy v. Austin, 3 Wend. 187; M Culloch v. Dawes, 9 D. & R. 40; Morrell v. Frith, 3 M. & W. 402.
¶2Judgment for the defendant.