Holmes v. Smith

OPINION

AMBRO, Circuit Judge.

Clarence Holmes appeals the District Court’s summary judgment in favor of Willard Smith, Jr., a/k/a Will Smith. Holmes sued Smith for breach of contract and quantum meruit based on an alleged recording contract between them. The District Court held that Holmes’s claims were barred by the statute of limitations. Holmes on appeal argues that his quantum meruit claim is not time barred because the statute of limitations should be tolled. For the reasons that follow, we disagree and affirm the decision of the District Court.

I

Sometime before 1986, Smith and Jeffrey…