Marlyn Eades and Joan Eades v. Clark Distributing Company, Inc. And Leslie Dale Trovillion

MERRITT, Chief Judge.

This case arises out of an automobile accident that occurred on January 13, 1992. Plaintiffs-Appellants, citizens of Ohio, sued Defendants-Appellees, a Kentucky company and its employee, in a diversity action in federal court in Kentucky. The complaint was filed on January 11,1994, within the two-year period in which a motor vehicle injury action must be commenced under the Kentucky limitations statute. See Ky.Rev.Stat. Ann. § 304.39-230 (Baldwin 1987). Under Kentucky law, however, an action is deemed commenced not at the time a complaint is filed, but rather “on the date…