Legal Opinion
Boostrom v. Bach
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided October 26, 1993No. 82S04-9310-CV-1177PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
We grant transfer to consider whether the statute of limitations is tolled when a complaint is tendered to the clerk, but the prescribed filing fee is not. We hold that it continues to run. Appellant Rebecca Boos-trom attempted to commence an action in small claims court against her former attorney Stephen Bach on January 12, 1990, the same day the statute of limitations was to run on her right of action. Boostrom mailed her complaint to the clerk of the Vanderburgh Superior Court by certified U.S. Mail return receipt requested. She did not…
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