{"id":53284,"date":"1892-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1892-12-22T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/amuthu-vs-muthayya-on-23-december-1892"},"modified":"2014-09-09T01:16:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T19:46:21","slug":"amuthu-vs-muthayya-on-23-december-1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/amuthu-vs-muthayya-on-23-december-1892","title":{"rendered":"Amuthu vs Muthayya on 23 December, 1892"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Amuthu vs Muthayya on 23 December, 1892<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1893) ILR 16 Mad 339<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: M Ayyar, Wilkinson<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. It has been found that there was a settlement of accounts between plaintiff and defendant on 13th July 1887, and that defendant promised to pay R Section 642-5-6, the balance struck, with interest at 12 per cent. per annum, within one month. The suit was instituted on the 10th July 1890. The question is whether the promise to pay amounted to a new contract. On behalf of the defendant-appellant it is argued that the agreement was void as made without consideration.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The learned Judge appears to have misapprehended the remarks of GARTH, C.J., in Dukhi Sahu v. Mahomed Bikhu I.L.R., 10 Cal., 284, see p. 296 An account stated is only a substantive cause of suit in itself when it is in writing signed by the defendant or his agent duly authorized in this behalf. As remarked by the learned Chief Justice, a promise to take a debt out of the operation of the Limitation Act must be in writing. The promise in the present case was only oral and amounted to no more than an admission of the debt due. It is, however, argued for the respondent that the giving a month&#8217;s time amounted to consideration. No case has been cited in support of this contention, nor do we think it can prevail. The transaction did not amount to a new contract extinguishing the old cause of action. If the defendant had given a promissory note for the amount found due, it would have been different, but a mere oral promise to pay is not sufficient to take the case out of the statute. The decrees of the lower Courts must be reversed and the suit dismissed with costs throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Amuthu vs Muthayya on 23 December, 1892 Equivalent citations: (1893) ILR 16 Mad 339 Bench: M Ayyar, Wilkinson JUDGMENT 1. It has been found that there was a settlement of accounts between plaintiff and defendant on 13th July 1887, and that defendant promised to pay R Section 642-5-6, the balance struck, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amuthu vs Muthayya on 23 December, 1892 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/amuthu-vs-muthayya-on-23-december-1892\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amuthu vs Muthayya on 23 December, 1892 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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