delivered the opinion of the Court.

The acknowledgment of the debt by the defendants in their answer in the suit in Chancery was not sufficient to prevent the bar of the statute of limitations.

“ It was an admission made entirely diverso intuitu,n Roscoe v. Hale, 7 Gray, 274, and that is decisive against it, while there may be other grounds of its insufficiency not necessary to be considered, since one is enough.

Reversed and remanded.