Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law 13th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller

Exercise 15

Statute of Limitations. Leonard Kranzler loaned Lewis Saltzman $100,000. Saltzman made fifteen payments on the loan, but this did not repay the entire amount. More than ten years after the date of the loan, but less than two years after the date of the last payment, Kranzler filed a suit against Saltzman to recover the outstanding balance. Saltzman claimed that the suit was barred by a ten-year statute of limitations. Does Kranzler need to prove a new promise with new consideration to collect the unpaid debt? Explain. [Kranzler v. Saltzman, 407 Ill. App.3d 24, 942 N.E.2d 722, 347 Ill.Dec. 519 (1 Dist. 2011)]