Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1869

Bank of Kentucky v. East

Bank of Kentucky v. East
Supreme Court of Louisiana · Decided April 15, 1869 · Iiowell
21 La. Ann. 276

Bank of Kentucky v. East

Opinion of the Court

IIowELL, J.

This is a suit instituted in January, 1868, on a promissory note due on the nineteenth January, 1862, to which the defendant set up the prescription of five years.

Prescription accrued on the nineteenth January, 1867, and no legal interruption is shown. C. C. 3505; Rabel v. Pourciau, 20 An. 132; Smith v. Stewart, lately decided.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be reversed and that there he judgment in favor of deféndant with costs in both eourts.

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