Case Name: Kirkpatrick's Executor v. Langphier
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-04
Citations: 1 Cranch 85
Docket Number: 
Parties: Kirkpatrick’s Executor v. Langphier.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 85–85

Head Matter:
Kirkpatrick’s Executor v. Langphier.
The obligee’s indorsement of a payment upon'a bond is not evidence to rebut the presumption of payment, unless made with the privity of the obligor.
Debt, on bond payable in 1775.
The defendant relied on, the length of time to prove payment.
The suit was brought in April, 1801. The plaintiff relies on an indorsement, dated December, 1781, in the handwriting of the testator, (who died in 1784) in these words, “ Rec’d, 20 Dec. 1781, your account for worlr done, sixty shillings, T. K.” The plaintiff also contended that five years during the war were to be deducted from the limiting time.

Opinion:
The Court
directed ibe jury that they may presume payment, and ought to presume it, if they should not be satisfied that the indorsement was made with the privity of the defendant.
Verdict for defendant.