Case Name: Zenon Areaux v. Valery L. Mayeux et als.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1871-02
Citations: 23 La. Ann. 172
Docket Number: No. 3212
Parties: Zenon Areaux v. Valery L. Mayeux et als.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 23
Pages: 172–173

Head Matter:
No. 3212.
Zenon Areaux v. Valery L. Mayeux et als.
If moro tlian five years have elapsed between the date of credits placed on. a note, the latter credit must bo shown to be in the handwriting of tho debtor in order that it may bo urged as an interruption of 'prescription. Evidence that it is in tho handwriting of tho creditor with the knowledge of the debtor, will not suffice to interrupt prescription. 21 An. 748.
APPEAL from tho Seventh Judicial District, parish of Avoyelles.
Miller, J. Edwards & Eueoté, for plaintiff and appellant.
Waddill & EarUn and Irion Overton, for defendants and appellees.

Opinion:
Taliaferro, J.
The plaintiff sues on a promissory note, dated January 9, 1859, made payable one year after date. Several credits are indorsed on the note, the second on the ninth of January, .1862, the third and last on tho twenty-fourth of August, 1867, more than five years intervening. Suit was brought and citation acknowledged on the third February, 1870. Tho plea of prescription was made by the defendant, which being sustained by the court below and judgment rendered against the plaintiff, he has appealed.
It seems the indorsement of the last credit is in the handwriting of the plaintiff, who testified that "it was made with the knowledge and Consent of Valery J. Máyeux, one of the defendants, who promised to j)ay and offered to pay the balance of the note, but the witness, thinking the debt well secured, left it in the hands of the defendant," etc. •
Prescription had accrued prior to the date of the credit last appearing on the note, and, the act of 1858 requiring a written promise of tho debtor to pay the debt in order to revive the obligation, we think the judgment correct.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the district court be affirmed with costs. 21 An. 740.