RICHARD B. ALEXANDER, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR,

v.

MOSES GRAHAM, DEFENDANT IN ERROR

Citator

Cited By

• Bauserman v. Blunt, 147 U.S. 647 (U.S. 1893)
  …trolling adjudication to the contrary, two general rules are well settled. 1st. When the statute of limitations has once begun to run, its operation is not suspended by a subsequent disability to sue. Walden v. Gratz, 1 Wheat. 292; Mercer v. Selden, 1 How. 37; Harris v. McGovern, 99 Ú. S. 161; McDonald v. Hovey, 110 U. S. 619. 2d. The bar of the statute cannot be postponed by the failure of the creditor to avail himself of any means within his power to prosecute or to preserve his claim. Richards v. Mary…
• McDONALD v. Hovey & Another, 110 U.S. 619 (U.S. 1884)
  …n of which has been well settled ; and it is to be construed as that statute, and all other acts of limitation founded on it, have been construed.” Walden v. Gratz's Heirs, 1 Wheat. 292, 296. And in the subsequent case of Mercer’s Lessee v. Selden, 1 How. 37, 51, the court took the same view in a case arising in the State of Virginia, in which the right of action accrued to one Jane Page, ah infant within the exception of the statute; and it was insisted that her marriage-before she was twenty-one added…
• Davis v. Coblens, 174 U.S. 719 (U.S. 1899)
  …ed to that effect. Thorp v. Raymond, 16 How. 247; Demarest v. Wynkoop, 3 Johns. Ch. 129; Smith v. Burtis, 9 Johns. 174; Jackson v. Johnson, 5 Cowen, 74; Walden v. Heirs of Gratz, 1 Wheat. 292; Hogan v. Kurtz, 94 U. S. 773; Mercer’s Lessee v. Selden, 1 How. 37; McDonald v. Hovey, 110 U. S. 619. The bar of the statute was therefore complete against her. But it was not complete against Millard McCorihick. Ten years of the period of adverse possession had not run after, the death of his parents or after the…