15 Tex. 57 | Tex. | 1855
The principal question presented by the record, which requires notice, is as to the propriety of the ruling of the Court, excluding the record of the judgment under which the defendant claimed to have derived title.
It was objected to the reading of the judgment in evidence,
The defendant, moreover, under his plea of the Statute of Limitations, appears to have made out a case in evidence, which brought him within the provision of the 16th section of the Statute, on which he relied. (Hart. Dig., Art. 2393.) But it is said, on behalf of the appellee, that the Statute did not run in his favor, because the plaintiff was absent from the State. Our Statute is unlike the English Statute of James, and the Statutes of some of the States, in that it contains no saving in favor of a plaintiff who is “beyond seas,” or without the limits of the State. The saving in our Statute is only as
Whether the disability of alien enemy will suspend the running of the Statute, it will be time enough to determine, when the question shall have been presented in a case requiring its adjudication. I apprehend, however, that the decisions of this Court will be found very strongly to support the conclusion that no saving or exception will be admitted by construction, to prevent'the running of the Statute, which is not expressed in it.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.