Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, 1851

Young v. Ward

Young v. Ward
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Decided July 1, 1851
33 Me. 359

Young v. Ward

Opinion of the Court

A promise by a debtor, made without legal consideration, that, before the pay-day of his debt arrives, he will make a partial payment, does not expedite the creditor’s right of action.

Neither wiE a partial payment in advance expedite the right of action for the balance.

Where a written instrument, intended as an agreement to be signed by both parties, shows that services were to be rendered by the plaintiff, for which he was to be paid at a future day, the term of credit is binding upon him, although the instrument was signed by himself only, if he admits the services to have been rendered under that agreement.

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