Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. v. Hartman

We granted certiorari in Hartman v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 897 P.2d 842 (Colo. App. 1994), to determine whether the court of appeals erred in finding that the equitable tolling doctrine applies to defeat the statute of limitations where a litigant waited to bring action against the defendants until he had a positive result in a related action against a third party.1 We find that since neither the actions of the defendants nor the lawsuit against the third party in any way impeded the litigant’s right to file suit against the defendant, the doctrine of equitable tolling does not prevent…