Case Name: Succession of Thomas S. Hardy and Wife
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1873-06
Citations: 25 La. Ann. 489
Docket Number: No. 798
Parties: Succession of Thomas S. Hardy and Wife.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 489–490

Head Matter:
No. 798.
Succession of Thomas S. Hardy and Wife.
The act oí' 1853 fixing the prescription ol' judgments at ten years from their rendition, also provides the only means by which it can be averted, and said prescription, therefore, can only be averted by complying with these requirements.
An acknowledgment and promise to pay by an administrator, is not an acknowledgment and promise by the debtor himself or by his specially authorized agent, even if the draft given by the administrator for the payment of the judgment, with the right of subrogation to the drawee, can be regarded as an acknowledgment and promise to pay the judgment. It is not considered that the draft amounts to such a promise.
APPEAL from the Parish Court of the parish of St. Landry. Morrogh, judge ad hoe.
Thomas H. Lewis, administrator. Martel & Hudspeth, Dupre & Garland, Moore & Garland, for opponents to the tableau of distribution.

Opinion:
Wyly, J.
The appellants, Francois Kobiu and Napoleon Kobin,. opposed the tableau filed by the administrator, because they are not placed thereon as special mortgage creditors for $731 86. The court held that their claim, evidenced by a judgment, is prescribed, more than ten years having elapsed and no revival thereof had, pursuant to the act of 1853.
It is conceded that the judgment was not revived in ten years, as required by the statute; but the appellants contend that the current of prescription has been interrupted, because, before it had accrued, execution twice issued, and also the former administratrix impliedly acknowledged the judgment by giving her draft in settlement thereof, which was not paid. " The act of 1853, fixing the prescription ot judgments at ten years from their rendition, also provides the only means by which it can be averted." Byrne, Vance & Co. v. Garratt, executor. 23 An. 587. See also Bertrand Drogre v. Charles Moreau and wife, 23 An. 173; Arrowsmith v. Durell, 21 An. 295; Walker v. Hays, 23 An. 176.
That the prescription of a judgment can only be averted by complying with the requirements of the act of 1853, we regard no longer an open question.
It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be affirmed •with costs.