{"id":5401,"date":"2020-11-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2020-11-16T14:41:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:41:40","slug":"action-on-invoices-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"Action on Invoices Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Statute-of-Limitation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5402\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Statute of limitations for contract actions is five years, with exceptions that include any action for payment upon a written contract, which is ten years. Ten-year limitation could apply to an invoice stating that buyer\u2019s signature constituted a promise to pay. But the ten-year limitation did not apply to seller\u2019s invoices, on which buyer\u2019s only writing was a signature, the significance of which the invoice does not describe. \u201c[T]he promise to pay money must arise from the writing&#8217;s explicit language; extrinsic evidence cannot supply the promise.\u201d Five-year limitation applied to the parties\u2019 contract seller\u2019s action to enforce that contract was too late, so circuit court should have dismissed that action, and the Supreme Court reverses the circuit court\u2019s judgment. \u00a0<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=168654\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Di Gregorio Food Products, Inc., Respondent, vs. John Racanelli, d\/b\/a Racanelli&#8217;s Cucina Pizza Express, Racanelli&#8217;s Cucina, Racanelli&#8217;s Delmar, Racanelli&#8217;s Kirkwood, Racanelli&#8217;s Fenton, and Racanelli&#8217;s New York Pizzaria, Appellant.<\/em><\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=168656\" target=\"_blank\">(Overview Summary)<\/a><br>Supreme Court of Missouri &#8211; SC98443<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Being sued? Contact our office at 816-524-4949 or you can visit our website at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.hoorfarlaw.com\/\">hoorfarlaw.com<\/a>\u00a0to schedule an appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statute of limitations for contract actions is five years, with exceptions that include any action for payment upon a written contract, which is ten years. Ten-year limitation could apply to an invoice stating that buyer\u2019s signature constituted a promise to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5401\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[267,736],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-attorney","tag-debt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5403,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/5403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}