Court Opinion

ID: 9812981
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:52:52.877763+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:27:25.883081
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Reade, J.
(.Dissentients.) I am of opinion that there was in this case an acknowledgment of a subsisting debt, from which the law implies a promise to pay.
I think the majority of the Court are mistaken in supposing that it was an acknowledgment, and a promise to pay, if the plaintiff would take Confederate currency. It "was an unqualified acknowledgment of the debt, and an unconditional offer to pay ; and the plaintiff refused the proffered payment, because it was offered in Confederate currency. The defendant had no other money, and therefore he could not pay. But that in'-'no way qualified the acknowledgment of the debt, from which the law implies a promise to pay.
My brother Boyden agrees with me in this view.
Per Curiam. Judgment reversed.