Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court January 5, 1884 (Weston v. Hodgkins)

Colburn, J.

It was decided in Bangs v. Hall, 2 Pick. 368, upon an elaborate review of all the authorities, that, to take a debt out of the statute of limitations by reason of an acknowledgment or new promise, it is necessary that there should be an unqualified acknowledgment, not only that the debt was just originally, but that it continues due at the time of the acknowledgment, so that a promise