Angela M. Phelps v. John D. McClellan

RYAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Angela M. Phelps raises interesting questions of jurisdiction, procedure, and choice of law in this appeal from the district court’s order dismissing Phelps’s diversity action for personal injuries sustained in a boating accident. The principal and disposi-tive issue is whether the district court correctly concluded that Phelps’s suit was time barred under Ohio’s two year statute of limitations. We agree with the district court that it was, and affirm.

I

On August 13, 1989, Phelps, a Pennsylvania resident, was a passenger in a power boat cruising in DeWittville Bay…