Case ID: ohio-st_40/html/0637-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Coffin v. Secor.
    
      J. M. Ritchey, for plaintiff in error.
    Lee, Brown, <f* Nee, for defendants in error.
    Error to the District Court of Lucas County.
   By the Court.

On April 25, 1868, C. was indebted to S. & Co. on account, $405.46. On May 15, 1876, lie signed and transmitted to them a letter, acknowledging said debt as then existing, reciting his difficulties, and stating his intention to pay the debt as soon as he recovered his health and had satisfied a mortgage. On May 12, 1877, S. & Co. sued on the original account, also averring said acknowledgment. C. demurred.

Held: Under section 24, Code of Civil Procedure, S & C., 951, the petition was good and the action rightly brought.

Judgment affirmed.