Forrest Drudge, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Overland Plazas Co., Appellee/cross-Appellant

Forrest Drudge brought this diversity action for personal injuries against Overland Plazas Co. in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. 1 The accident sued on occurred in Tennessee, and the action would be barred if brought in Tennessee under that State’s one-year statute of limitations, Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-304. The District Court held that Iowa’s borrowing statute, Iowa Code § 614.7, when considered along with the borrowing statute of Missouri, Overland’s domicile, Mo.Ann.Stat. § 516.190, required it to apply the Tennessee statute of limitations, and therefore…