David v. Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice.

This is a petition for review from an order of the superior court dismissing a strict liability claim as untimely filed under the applicable statute of limitation, AS 09.-10.070. 1 Petitioner was injured on July 3, 1974. The limitation period for this cause of action terminated on July 3, 1976, a Saturday, when the court is closed. The following Monday, July S, was a legal holiday, and the suit was filed on the next day that the court was open, July 6, 1976. 2

AS 01.10.080 specifies:

Computation of time. The time in which an act provided by law is required to be…