Appeal of Runner

Citations

• 15 A. 647
• 121 Pa. 649
• 1888 Pa. LEXIS 700

Syllabus

<p>1. Credits indorsed upon a bond, are not evidence of actual payment of the credits sufficient to repel the presumption of payment of the bond, without proof that they were made within twenty years and whilst it was against the interest of the obligee to make them: See Gregory v. Commonwealth, Porter v. Nelson, and Breneman’s Appeal, preceding.</p> <p>2. In the present case, in the distribution of a decedent’s estate, declarations by the decedent shortly before his death held to exhibit an unequivocal acknowledgment of the existence of a specialty indebtedness, sufficient to repel the presumption of payment after the lapse of twenty years.</p>