E.O.C. Ord, Inc. v. Kovakovich

Opinion

STONE (W. A.), J.

This appeal presents the issue whether the two-year statute of limitations for an action based upon an oral contract or the four-year statute for an action based upon a contract founded on an instrument in writing applies to the particular facts found by the trial court. Because we will hold that the four-year statute applies, we will address the additional issue of when plaintiff’s contract action accrued in order to determine whether the action was timely filed.

It was March of 1978 when respondent Kovakovich 1 contacted appellant E.O.C. Ord, an attorney certified as…