Murray v. Taylor

As stated in 53 CJS 970, Limitations of Actions, § 27: "Statutes of limitation are generally considered as municipal regulations founded on local policy, which have no coercive authority abroad, and with which foreign jurisdictions have no concern, and hence the general rule is that in respect of the limitation of actions the law of the forum governs, regardless of where the cause of action arose, or of whether or not the action would be barred in the state in which it arose.” This is so because as a matter of public policy states have the right to determine what litigation may or may not be…