44 N.C. 420 | N.C. | 1853
The only evidence offered on the trial to take the plaintiff's case out of the statute of limitations, was that the defendant's testator, a year before his death, and within less than three years before the bringing of the action, said that "he intended to pay Thomas (the plaintiff) for keeping the old woman, until he was satisfied." This declaration *387
was testified to by two witnesses, one of whom stated that at the time he heard defendant's testator say so, the plaintiff and he spoke also of $2 being then paid. His Honor, Ellis, J., before whom the case was tried, at WILKES, at Fall Term, 1852, thought the evidence repelled the bar of the statute, and the jury accordingly found for the plaintiff, and judgment having been rendered upon the verdict, the defendant appealed.
The instruction given by his Honor to the jury that the facts proved amounted to a new promise and repelled the operation of the statute of limitations, is opposed by the principle declared by this Court in several recent cases, and cannot therefore be sustained. The case of Sherrod v.Bennet,
PER CURIAM.
Judgment reversed and a venire de novo awarded.
Cited: McRae v. Leary,