Bigelow v. Grannis

This is not like the case of a debt barred by the statute of limitations, where proof of an acknowledgment will, under certain circumstances, be sufficient to save the action.(a) In the case of infancy, there must be a new promise or ratification of the contract after the defendant has attained the age of twenty-one years: and, as in other cases of contract, the minds of the parties must meet. A promise to a stranger will not answer. It must be to the plaintiff, or, what is the same thing, to his attorney or agent.

New trial granted.(b)