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    "ocrText": "resident executors would be enjoined in aquity from setting up the\nbar of the to an action at law on e cleim agninst the\nestato whon the exegutora gave notice that the olaim hnd been\njected and then ressined out of the State untill the period for in-\natituting suit had explied. The court said In diaposing of the\ncana at PDe 694 end 695:\n\"In large numbers of canes where the defendant\nhas caused the plaintirs to subjeet his claim to\nthe statutory baz by procuring en injunction upon\nita prosecution or by concealing its\nexistence, or by apparently vaiving, by a promise\nor otherwise, the benofita of the statute as a des\nTenso courts of equity havo restraino the defend-\nant from plending the statute on the ground thet he\nhed estopped himsols or that to permit him so inter-\npose sugh a ples would ba to allow hin to take ed\nventage or hia own wronde Dournty Ve Doughty a\n347 (1853) Cowart V. Perrine, G G. B. Gr. 101 (1870) :\nquiok V. Corliss, supre; 7reebolders Ve Veghte, 15 Vz.\n509 (1882) : Lamb V. tertin, 16 stow. Ege 36 (1807)\nHollowey Va Appolgot, 10 Diok, Ch. Reg. 683 (1897) 19\n& Ins. Eneyol. Ict 286, 280, and\nosaca oited.\"\nHoward Vo weas Jeroey Railrosd Company (aupra), one of New\nJersey's leading cases, turnishos en axcellent illustration of the\nbreatth of the doctrine. There, the pleintire and the derendant\nhad been negotieting e sottlement of the plaintirg'a clain for\ndamages for personal injuries. The defondant apparently admit ted\nliability but the amount of denagas was in questione The court\nappears to have been of the opinion that the pluintife believed, by\nreason of the statements and conduot of the defendant, that the\namount of danages would be dotemined when the excent of the injurios\nhad bosn deternined. He asked for $20,000 in settlement of the claim.\nThis taloon under advisoment and the plaintiff avaited a reply.\nTwo days prior to the and of the statutory period, of which the\nplaintire ald not know, the defendent offered $2,500.00 in settlement.\nAfter discuasing the faota of the 08.00, the acurt seid:\n**hile it cannos be to bo ordinarily any\npart of duty to apprice en of hia rights,\nit must be recognized that one cannot Justly or\noquitably Jull his adversary Anto a folso\nof end thereby esuso his adversary to sub-"
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