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delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action on the case, to which the defendant
This view of the law is sustained by the opinion of the court in the case of White v. Johnston, 1 Cushman’s R. 68, in which it was distinctly held that the proviso in the act of 1822, in favor of minors and married women, was not repealed by the act of 1844; but that the same was applicable to the class of cases embraced by the fourth section of that act. The decision of the circuit court was made upon a different construction of the acts of limitation, and is, therefore, erroneous. Let the judgment of the circuit court sustaining the demurrer be reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings.