Case Name: Young versus Ward & al.
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1851
Citations: 33 Me. 359
Docket Number: 
Parties: Young versus Ward & al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 33
Pages: 359–359

Head Matter:
Young versus Ward & al.
J. Hill, for the plaintiff.
J. A. Peters, for the defendant.

Opinion:
A promise by a debtor, made without legal consideration, that, before the pay-day of his debt arrives, he will make a partial payment, does not expedite the creditor's right of action.
Neither wiE a partial payment in advance expedite the right of action for the balance.
Where a written instrument, intended as an agreement to be signed by both parties, shows that services were to be rendered by the plaintiff, for which he was to be paid at a future day, the term of credit is binding upon him, although the instrument was signed by himself only, if he admits the services to have been rendered under that agreement.