What diligence sufficient. - Effect of partial interruption.
Gideon Elliot, Chirurgeon Apothecary in Edinburgh, v. The Representatives of Captain William Veach
Date: 20 February 1708 Case No. No 433.
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In the pursuit at the instance of Gideon Elliot against the Representatives of Captain William Veach, for payment of an account of medicaments furnished by the pursuer to the defunct; the Lords found, that the three years prescription of the said account quoad modum probandi by witnesses, was interrupted by a letter from him to the pursuer, acknowledging debt in general, and that he had ordered his payment by a friend.
Fol. Dic. v. 2. p. 129. Forbes, p. 247.
*** A similar decision was pronounced, February 1730, Chalmers against Ogilvie, see Appendix.
