Beckman v. Alaska Dredging Co.

This is an action against the Alaska Dredging Company and others on a number of promissory notes. To the second amended complaint, the Alaska Dredging Company interposed a demurrer on the grounds that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, or any cause of action, against the demurrant; and that it affirmatively appears in the second amended complaint that the action was not commenced within the time limited by law.

“Actions can only be commenced within the periods herein prescribed after the cause of action shall have accrued . . . The period prescribed in the…