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81 A.D. 265

Kirkpatrick v. Goldsmith

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1903-03-15

Appeal by the plaintiff, Emma J. D. Kirkpatrick, as trustee under the will of John Kirkpatrick, deceased, for the benefit of David E. Kirkpatrick, and as trustee for Ray C. Kirkpatrick and others, children of said David E. Kirkpatrick, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Saratoga on the 27th day of June, 1902, upon the report of a referee holding that the plaintiff’s cause-of action was barred…

Decided 1903-03-15

Channell, B.,

¶1in further concurring in the decision, says-: “The *268question strictly is one of law, and we are all agreed that the answer to an inquiry, whether the facts would have supported a plea of payment, is the test of whether they take the case out of the statute.” This rule has been approved in Matter of Thompson (5 Dem. 397).

¶2I am unable to see under the facts proven here how a plea of payment could have been sustained' in an action brought by the plaintiff for this interest before the running of the statute. Here appears to have been a credit in the account of David E. Kirkpatrick. It does not appear that that credit was ever assented to by the plaintiff or Florence Kirkpatrick, or that it was ever known to them.' A credit to an account of a third person not shown to have been authorized by the creditor, or to have been acquiesced in by him, cannot be held to be a satisfaction of the claim for interest due. Under the authorities cited, it is not such a payment as can be held to bar the running of the Statute of Limitations.

¶3The judgment must, therefore^ be affirmed.

¶4Judgment unanimously affirmed, with costs.

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