Case Name: STATE use of JOHN ABBOTT and WIFE vs. LEVIN STUART, administrator of JEHU STOCKLEY
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1833
Citations: 1 Harr. 134
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE use of JOHN ABBOTT and WIFE vs. LEVIN STUART, administrator of JEHU STOCKLEY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 134–134

Head Matter:
STATE use of JOHN ABBOTT and WIFE vs. LEVIN STUART, administrator of JEHU STOCKLEY.
Infancy must be specially replied to a plea of the act of limitations.
Debt on a testamentary bond.
Pleas—“Plene administravit; performance, and the act of limitations.” Replications and issues.
The plff. offered to prove the infancy of Mrs. Abbott to rebut the plea of the statute of limitations, but it was objected to and insisted that he ought to have replied the infancy.
Layton, for plff. Cullen, for deft.

Opinion:
The Court
said that where a party relied on infancy to prevent the operation of the statute, he must reply it so as to give the other side notice.
The plff. suffered a nonsuit.