Case ID: white-w_1/html/0313-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hurt, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. H. Calloway v. B. M. Baldwin.
    (No. 1397, Op. Book No. 3, p. 589.)
    Error from Harrison County.
    November 18, 1882.
   Opinion by

Hurt, J.

§ 591. Limitation; verbal promise to pay a barred debt will not defeat the statute of. A verbal promise to pay a debt barred by the statute of limitation will not defeat a plea of the statute of limitation. To have this effect, such a promise must be in writing. [R. S. 3219.]

§ 593. Bankruptcy; verbal promise to pay debt discharged by, is valid. A verbal promise to pay a debt which has been discharged in bankruptcy, made by the bankrupt after his discharge, is a valid promise, and can be enforced. [4 Rawle, 452; 14 Johnson, 178; 12 N. Y. 637; 3 Am. Rep. 135-138; 3 Am. Dec. 45; 27 Am. Dec. 454; 13 Am. Rep. 543; 61 Mass. 482; 8 Humph. 510; 28 Miss. 702; 16 Ala. 261.]

§ 593. Bankruptcy ivill suspend limitation, when, etc. If a creditor filed his claim with the register in bankruptcy, this would suspend limitation during the pend-ency of the bankruptcy, but where he did not so file his claim, the bankrupt proceeding did not interrupt the running of limitation. [Wofford v. Unger, 53 Tex. 634.]

Reversed and remanded.