Thornton v. Badger Northland, Inc.

ALMON, Justice.

The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Eastern Division, certified the following question to this court. Rule 18, Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure: Does the one-year statute of limitations run against a married male between the age of 18 and 21?1 We hold that it does.

The appellant, Thornton, was injured on July 1, 1968, while working with a forage blower. His injury was allegedly proximately caused by the negligent manufacture and distribution of the forage blower by the appellees, Badger Northland, Inc., and Southeastern Silo Company. At the…