20 S.E. 518 | N.C. | 1894
The allegation of the complaint is that the plaintiff's intestate rendered services during the years 1881, 1882, 1883 and 1884 as a servant for defendant's intestate, who promised time and again to pay for them. The complaint further alleges the reasonable value of said services, so as to recover upon a quantum meruit. The answer alleges full payment of said services, and says that if defendant's intestate promised any additional compensation, or any compensation, it "was in parol and more than three years had elapsed since the making of such promise, and the defendant specially pleads the statute of limitations upon such promise." The statute was sufficiently pleaded, whether the action is on the express promise or the implied promise. Stokes v.Taylor,
Error.
Cited: Duckworth v. Duckworth,