Case Name: Mary Duncan vs. Michael Duncan
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1877-11
Citations: 29 La. Ann. 829
Docket Number: No. 5438
Parties: Mary Duncan vs. Michael Duncan.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 29
Pages: 829–831

Head Matter:
No. 5438.
Mary Duncan vs. Michael Duncan.
Parol evidence is not admissible to prove an acknowledgment of, and promise to pay a debt, after the debt has become prescribed.,
Prescription will not be suspended on account of the absence of the creditor from the domicile of the debtor, when it appears that it was in the power of the creditor to reach the domicile, and there bring suit in time to avoid the prescription of his debt.
APPEAL from the Fourth District Court, parish of Orleans. Lynch, J. Trial by jury.
Belclen & Hancllin, for plaintiff and appellee.
Foley & Buisson, for defendant.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Egan, J.
The motion'to dismiss this appeal, filed on November 9, 1877, is upon the identical ground taken in a former motion to dismiss, filed November 12,1875, which was overruled by our predecessors. The appellee can not be permitted thus to revive an issue already decided against him. The motion to dismiss is overruled.