Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors May 15, 1836 (Stafford v. Richardson)

By the Court,

Savage, Ch. J.

Two principal questions arise in this case; 1. At what time did the plaintiff’s cause of action accrue? and 2. If it accrued more than six years before suit brought, was there a new promise to .pay, or a sufficient recognition of an existing indebtedness from which to presume a promise ? According to the case of Beardsley v. Root, 11 Johns. R.