Henry Block Co. v. Papania

Citations

• 121 La. 683
• 46 So. 694
• 1908 La. LEXIS 738

Syllabus

<p>Pbesceiption — Accounts—Pabol Evidence.</p> <p>The object and effect of Act No. 78, p. 86, of 1888, amending article 3538 of the Revised Civil Code, is not to prohibit proof of an interruption of the prescription running upon accounts sued on which are governed by that prescription by reason of parol evidence, but to prevent such evidence, when received, having the effect of shifting the prescription of three years applicable to those accounts to a prescription of ten years.</p> <p>Monroe, J., dissenting.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>