32 Ga. 119 | Ga. | 1861
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
This was a motion for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict of the jury is strongly and decidedly against the weight of the evidence, which was refused by the Court below, and brought before us for review by writ of error.
The debt, upon its face, is barred by the statute of limitations, as to the defendant, and the plaintiff sought, on the
According to the rule laid down by this Court, in Martin vs. Broach, 6 Ga., 31, an acknowledgment or promise sufficient to obviate the statute of limitations, or impose a new obligation, must specify, or plainly refer to, the particular demand or cause of action to be renewed or created by it.
2. Tried by this rule, is this demand, now sued upon, specified, or plainly referred to, in the acknowledgment or promise contained in the defendant’s letter of 10th February, 1856? We think not. Mr. Adams, in his letter, refers generally, to the notes held by Mr. Walker on the late Judge Merriwether, and defendant as security. He makes no mention whatever of the number of the notes so held, the amount due on the notes, or when they were given and made payable. • The defendant, in his reply, makes the same sort of general reference. In neither one is this particular debt specified, or plainly referred to.
3. The plaintiff, in order to identify the note sued on as the one referred to by the defendant’s letter, introduced in evidence an exemplification of a proceeding in equity in Putnam Superior Court, by Jefferson Adams, as the administrator of Judge Merriwether’s estate against the creditors of that estate, for the purpose of marshaling and distributing among those entitled to the same, the assets of that estate, in which this particular debt was specified as one held by Walker; one other note by Merriwether, and defendant as security, was enumerated therein, as belonging to, and held by, Walker; also, an execution against defendant and Merriwether, but which was, in fact, the individual debt of Merriwether. The execution was fully paid off out of the assets, and the notes received a pro rata share out of the assets of thirty cents on the dollar, which was credited on them. This evidence is very conclusive that the notes
Judgment affirmed.