National Surety Co. v. Ruffin

Hiscock, Ch. J.

This action is brought to recover upon a cause of action which accrued in the State of Virginia more than eleven years before the commencement of the action in favor of the plaintiff, a resident of this State, against the defendant who then was and ever since has been a resident of the said State of Virginia. The only proposition argued on the appeal is the one that said cause of action had become barred by the Statute of Limitations and this question involves the consideration of three sections of the former Code of Civil Procedure and which now, in identical language, have…