Court Opinion

ID: 9864883
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 16:15:43.387884+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:32:26.050533
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Mr. Justice Young,
specially concurring.
I concur in the conclusions of Mr. Justice Holland, but solely on the ground that the cause of action was barred by the six year statute of limitations, and that this fact is established by the plaintiff’s testimony.
The plaintiff seeks to avoid the bar of the statute by a showing that the defendant company, acting- through Mr. Melville, its agent, agreed to give plaintiff a certificate of indebtedness of the defendant company for the amount the plaintiff had paid for his stock. The conversation concerning this matter was very informal and in my opinion does not. establish a definite offer to settle and compromise the claim, and an acceptance by the plaintiff. No such certificate was ever issued, and in my judgment' all that the evidence discloses is that there were negotiations for such a settlement which were never completed.
*64In this view of the case, it is not necessary to determine whether Melville was in fact the agent of the defendant company and authorized to rnáke such a compromise settlement.
Mr. Justice Burke concurs in the views expressed herein.