Mike J. Morfessis v. Norman Baum and Lois Schenk

D.C.Code § 12-201 (1951) provides in pertinent part: “No action shall be brought * * * for libel, slander, assault, , battery, mayhem, wounding, malicious prosecution, false arrest, or false imprisonment after one year from the time when the right to maintain any such action shall have accrued * *

*941The appellees in the District Court moved to strike the appellant’s complaint on the ground that his action was barred by the statute, as not having been commenced within one year from the date of the acts complained of. My colleagues have denominated the complaint here to sound in “malicious…