Case Name: John Battles et al. versus Alpheus Fobes Junior
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1836-10-26
Citations: 18 Pick. 532
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Battles et al. versus Alpheus Fobes Junior.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 35
Pages: 532–533

Head Matter:
John Battles et al. versus Alpheus Fobes Junior.
Eddy and E. Whitman,
for the plaintiffs, cited Foster v. Essex Bank, 16 Mass. R. 245; Holden v. James, 11 Mass. R. 396.

Opinion:
In this action (of assumpsit), which was pending at the time when the Revised Statutes went into operation, and in which the statute of limitations had previously been pleaded, the plaintiff was not allowed to avoid the bar by bringing his case within the provision of the Revised Stat. c. 120, § 9, that if the debtor shall be absent from, and reside out of, the State, the time of his absence shall not be taken as a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.
W. Baylies, for the defendant,
cited Revised Stat. c. 146, § 5. [See Bickford v. Boston and Lowell Rail Road Corp. 21 Pick. 100: Sawyer v. Bancroft, 21 Pick. 210; Gay v. Richardson, ante, 417.]