Case Name: THE STATE, for the use of JOHN M. KILLEN and wife vs. PETER L. COOPER, Executor of GEORGE CARTER, deceased
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1834
Citations: 1 Harr. 325
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE STATE, for the use of JOHN M. KILLEN and wife vs. PETER L. COOPER, Executor of GEORGE CARTER, deceased.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 325–325

Head Matter:
THE STATE, for the use of JOHN M. KILLEN and wife vs. PETER L. COOPER, Executor of GEORGE CARTER, deceased.
Infancy must be specially replied to a plea of the statute of limitations.
Frame for plaintiff.
Bates and Huffington for defendant.

Opinion:
Debt on an administration bond. Narr suggesting breaches. Plea's—payment, non est factum, plene administravit and act of limitations. 1
To repel the plea of the statute of limitations the plff. was about to prove the infancy of Mrs. Killen; but it was objected to, and
The court stopt him. There is no replication of infancy to the plea of the statute, and unless infancy be specially replied it cannot be relied on or proved at the trial.
The plff. suffered a nonsuit.