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        "text": "Greenhaw, J.\nAppellant prosecutes tliis appeal from a judgment of the Sebastian probate court, Greenwood District, allowing the claim of appellee against the estate of Mrs. Matilda Richards in the sum of $478.25, for merchandise, after appellant as administrator of said estate had disallowed the claim.\nThe claim was filed February 28,1941. The account upon which the claim was based started prior to August 1, 1921, at which time the balance due thereon was $506.03. The last sale to the deceased under this account was in 1933. The account showed numerous payments, with nothing paid after 1936 except in 1938. It is obvious that it was barred by the statute of limitation if the three small payments listed as credits in May, August and September, 1938, were not made. No one testified concerning these payments or credit entries except the claimant, appellee. Appellee was permitted to testify over the objections of appellant that the 1938 payments were made by the deceased and he entered the credits on his books; that the account was correct and the deceased knew what her account was, as he told her the amount of her balance, and that she saw the account.\nAppellant contends that this testimony by appellee was incompetent as violative of ^ 5154 of Pope\u2019s Digest which read's as follows: \u201cIn civil action, no witness shall be excluded because he is a party to the suit or interested in the iss,ue to be tried. Provided, in actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judg.ment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other as to any transactions with or statements of the testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party. \u2019 \u2019\nHe further contends that the mere fact that the alleged 1938 payments were entered on the account and appear as credits is insufficient, standing alone, to prove that these payments were in fact made by the deceased. We concur in both contentions.\nIn the case of Slagle v. Box, 124 Ark. 43, 186 S. W. 299, this court, in discussing credit indorsements on a note otherwise barred, said: \u201cWhen payments are relied upon to stop the running of the statute of limitations, the burden of proof\u2019 is on the party alleging it to show by other evidence in addition to the endorsement that the payment was in fact made. Simpson v. Brown-Desnoyers Shoe Co., 70 Ark. 598, 70 S. W. 305; Brown v. Hutchings, 14 Ark. 83.\u201d\nIn Kory v. East Arkansas Lumber Co., 181 Ark. 478, 26 S. W. 2d 896, this court said: \u201cOn the question of limitation, it might be said that with the exception of the notations on the note in question there is nothing to show that.any payment has been made thereon. There is no evidence showing by whom the notations were made, or, indeed, if any payment had been made at all. No witness testified that any payments had been made, and in view of the appellant\u2019s testimony, we do not think the indorsement alone would be sufficient to establish the alleged payments. Slagle v. Box, 124 Ark. 43, 186 S. W. 299; Johnson v. Spangler, 176 Ark. 328, 2 S. W. 2d 1089, 59 A. L. R. 899.\u201d\n\u2022Since there was no evidence that the alleged 1938 payments were in fact made except the testimony of appellee, which was incompetent, these credits stand unexplained, and under the above- cases the mere indorsement on the account is insufficient to establish, the alleged payments. The case of Johnson v. Spangler, 176 Ark. 328, 2 S. W. 2d 1089, is in point on both contentions, and is controlling here. That case involved the effect of indorsement of payments on a note, as well as both competent and incompetent testimony concerning the alleged payments. It was held that Spangler, the payee and owner of the note, whose status there was in effect the same as that of appellee here, was precluded by \u00a7 4144 of Crawford & Moses\u2019 Digest, now \u00a7 5154 of Pope\u2019s Digest, above quoted, from testifying about the payments and credits. Among other things it was there said:\n\u201cObjection was made to the testimony of appellee to the effect that payments on the note were made in 1918 and in 1923, but the court overruled the objection tentatively, upon the statement of appellee\u2019s counsel that, if the testimony was not finally shown to be competent, it could be excluded and not considered by the court. The case was tried by the court without a jury. Counsel for appellee asserts that it was his understanding, at the time this testimony was offered, that other testimony would show the payments had been sent to appellee by Johnson, but, when the testimony failed to establish that fact, it was conceded that appellee had given incompetent testimony, in that he had testified to transactions with the ward of the defendant guardian, and that thereafter the court was not asked to, and did not, consider this incompetent testimony, and that this testimony was not considered by the court in the findings of fact made, but that the findings which were made were based upon testimony which was competent, to-wit, the testimony of Davis and Rhodes.\n\u201cIt is conceded that most of the testimony given by appellee was incompetent, as being in violation of the statute quoted above, but it is insisted that this testimony was not considered by the court, and that there was sufficient competent testimony to show a payment on the note by Johnson within five years of the date of the institution of this suit.\n\u201cThe competency of the testimony of the witnesses Davis and Rhodes is not questioned, and their testimony, if credited, as was done by the court, shows a payment on the note within five years of the date of the institution of the suit, and at a time when the maker of the note was sane.\n\u201cNow, if the payment credited as having been made in 1918 could be said to have been shown to have been made by competent testimony, then the note was not barred by. the statute of limitations when the last payment was made in 1923. It was evidently the opinion of the trial court, as reflected by the findings of fact, that the indorsement of the 1918 payment arrested the running of the statute of limitations and formed a new period from which the statute ran. It has been said, however, that \u2018where payments are relied upon to stop the running of the statute of limitations, the burden of proof is on the party alleging it to show by other evidence, in addition to the indorsement, that the payment was in fact made.\u2019 Slagle v. Box, 124 Ark. 43, 186 S. W. 299; Simpson v. Brown-Desnoyers Shoe Co., 70 Ark. 598, 70 S. W. 305, Brown v. Hutchings, 14 Ark. 83. As there was no other testimony that the payment indorsed in 1918 had been made except the indorsement itself and the incompetent testimony of Spangler, it must be held that the note was, in fact, barred by the statute of limitations when the payment was made in 1923. ...\u201d\nIn the comparatively recent case of Graves v. Bowles, 190 Ark. 579, 79 S. W. 2d 995, this court, in reversing the judgment of the circuit court allowing the claim, said: \u201cThe appellee testified in this case. He was not called by the adverse party, and most of his testimony was incompetent, and we feel impelled to say that the court in permitting this testimony to be introduced, suffered himself to be influenced thereby. The testimony, as to transactions with the deceased, is violative of \u00a7 4144, Crawford & Moses\u2019 Digest, and the cases there cited.\u201d\nWe, therefore, hold that as there was no evidence that the 1938 payments indorsed on the account had been made except indorsements themselves and the incompetent testimony of appellee, the account was barred by the statute of limitations when the claim was filed. Furthermore, the testimony of appellee as to transactions with the deceased was in violation of \u00a7 5154 of Pope\u2019s Digest.\nSince this cause appears to have been fully developed, the judgment is reversed and the cause dismissed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Means Wilkinson and Geo. W. Johnson, for appellant.",
      "D. W. Bryan, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Johnson, Administrator v. Murphy.\n4-6875\n166 S. W. 2d 9\nOpinion delivered November 30, 1942.\nMeans Wilkinson and Geo. W. Johnson, for appellant.\nD. W. Bryan, for appellee."
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