Case ID: mo_1/html/0472-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "M’Girk, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Easton v. McAllister, adm’r of Long.
    Against a note payable “ on demand,” the statute of limitation begins to run from) the date of the note.
    ERROR from. St. Charles Circuit Court.
   M’Girk, C. J.,

delivered the1 opinion of the Court.

The question submitted for the consideration of the- Court is, at what time does, the statute-of limitations begin.to-run against a note payable-on demand?

The statute is, that the action shall he brought within five years after the cause of action hath accrued'. That we understand to mean, that whenever the debt is in a situation ^o he sued: on, thenceforward, the- statute- runs. Now, the law is well settled, that a suit may be brought on this sort of note-as soon as made. Then, it must! result that the statute runs on such note from its date. This appears to he the law, as. understood by Sergeant Williams in 2 Saunders, 63, c. fig. 2, or more correctly, 63, a note 6.

Let the judgment he rendered for Easton..