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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ash v. Hayman.
    Terms offered by way of compromise cannot be given in evidence to rebut the statute of limitations.
    Assumpsit, upon the defendant’s promissory note due in 1806. The defendant pleaded.the statute of limitations.
    To lake the case out of the statute, the plaintiff offered in evidence a letter from the defendant to the witness, in which he says, “ I am desirous that Mr. Ash’s claim should be' settled; ” and offers to pay $150, which was half of the amount of the note without interest.
    This evidence was objected to by Mr. Marbury, for the defendant, on the ground that it was a mere’ offer to compromise; and he relied upon the case of Neil v. Abbott, in this Court, at December term, 1819, [ante, 193.]
   The Court

(Thruston, J., control,)

rejected the evidence.