Boulin v. Rainey

Ludeling, C. J. This suit is instituted on two promissory notes— one for five hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-three cents, due fifteenth of March, 1864 ; the other, for the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars, due twelfth of March, 1860. The plea of prescription has been filed in..this court. Citation was served on the defendant in this case on the seventh of May, 1867. The note for five hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-three cents is not prescribed. The other note is prescribed on its face. But it is contended by the plaintiff that the payment of the note was proro-gated by agreement with defendant and that partial payments were made at different times as appears from the indorsements on the back [336] of the note, and thus prescription was interrupted. These memoranda were not proved or offered in evidence, and although they might he proof against the party who had possession of tho note, if offered in evidence, they prove nothing against the defendant, unless it he established that they wore written hy him, or with his knowledge and consent, or at least that the credits were given before prescription had accrued and at a time not suspicious. 12 An. 83, 661. The renewal on the hack of tho note, purporting to have been signed hy the defendant, was not offered in evidence — non constat, that if it had been, the defendant would not have objected to it and denied his signature. His general denial admitted Ms signature to the note only. We do not consider the agreement on the hack of the note a part of it. We do not regard this case as coming witliin the rule announced in Maxwell v. Kennedy, 10 An. p. 798. The plaintiff has asked us to remand the case if wo considered the plea of prescription well founded. It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the lower court in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of five hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-three cents, with eight per cent, per annum interest from the twelfth of March, 1863, ho affirmed, and that in other respects it ho avoided and set aside. It is further ordered that this cause he remanded to the District Court to he tried on the plea of prescription, and that the defendants pay the costs of the District Court, and that the appellee pay costs of the appeal.