Court Opinion

ID: 7189758
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:55:43.305286+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:16:09.448439
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Ok the Motion eor a Rehearing.
Ludeling, C. J.
The appellant relies upon section 2818 of the Revised Statutes of 1870 to sustain his position ; that the course of prescription had been interrupted by the giving of a draft by an administratrix of a succession to pay a judgment against the deceased. The section is in the following words: “Thereafter parol evidence •shall not be received to prove any acknowledgment and promise to pay any judgment, sentence, or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, either in or out of this State, for the purpose or in order 'to take such judgment, sentence or decree out of prescription, or to 'recover the same after prescription has run or been completed; but in •all such cases the acknowledgment and promise to pay shall be proven ■by written evidence signed by the debtor himself, or his specially ■authorized agent.” The written acknowledgment and promise to pay spoken of in this section is to be made by the debtor himself, or his specially authorized agent.
It is manifest that an acknowledgment and promise to pay by an administrator is not an acknowledgment and promise by the debtor him■self, or by his specially authorized agent, even if the draft given by the .administratrix 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.” But we do not consider the ■ draft amounts to a promise to pay the judgment.
We do not, therefore, deem it necessary to decide, in this case, -whether or not the section 2818 of the Revised Statutes of 1870 is repealed by the article 3547 of the Revised Civil Code.
The rehearing is refused.