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

Smith v. Purdy.
    Interest not recoverable in an action of book-debt, by an agreement made more tlian tliree years before action was brought.
    Action of debt on book for supporting a pauper, etc. upon a special undertaking by tlie defendant, as one of tlie overseers of the poor, for tlie space of five years and eight months, and the interest. Issue to the court.
   Judgment —• That the defendant does owe the plaintiff, etc. and that he recovered the principal of the debt. But the interest resting upon a parol agreement of more than three years’ standing is barred by the Statute against Frauds and Perjuries.