Ash's Estate

Citations

• 202 Pa. 422
• 51 A. 1030
• 1902 Pa. LEXIS 536

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Presumption of payment — Statute of limitations.</p> <p>When the commonwealth comes into its courts, it is subject like all other suitors to the established rules of evidence. It must meet the burden of proof, its evidence must be relevant, material, the best attainable, and must be presented in due order under the regular rules of procedure. In all such respects it stands upon the same footing as ordinary litigants.</p> <p>While a statute of limitation cannot be pleaded against the commonwealth, the presumption of payment from the lapse of time being simply a rule of evidence affecting the burden of proof, applies to it.</p>