Case Name: Ash v. Hayman
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1824-04
Citations: 2 Cranch 452
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ash v. Hayman.
Judges: (Thruston, J., control,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 452–452

Head Matter:
Ash v. Hayman.
Terms offered by way of compromise cannot be given in evidence to rebut the statute of limitations.
Assumpsit, upon the defendant’s promissory note due in 1806. The defendant pleaded.the statute of limitations.
To lake the case out of the statute, the plaintiff offered in evidence a letter from the defendant to the witness, in which he says, “ I am desirous that Mr. Ash’s claim should be' settled; ” and offers to pay $150, which was half of the amount of the note without interest.
This evidence was objected to by Mr. Marbury, for the defendant, on the ground that it was a mere’ offer to compromise; and he relied upon the case of Neil v. Abbott, in this Court, at December term, 1819, [ante, 193.]

Opinion:
The Court
(Thruston, J., control,)
rejected the evidence.