5 Vt. 143 | Vt. | 1831
The items of account exhibited before -the referee, have not been brought into Court, but from Jus report, we learn there was no exhibits on the part of the defendant, nor had the plaintiff any credits on his book, so that the question for the referee to decide was, whither the statute of limitation should bar those items of account which were of more than six years standing; this question was virtually settled in the case of Hutchinson & Dunham vs. Pratt, 2. Vt. Rep. 146. The case of Cotes vs. Harris, cited in Bul. N. P. 149, was then considered as law, and must now govern in this case.
As it respects the tender, it appears that a short time