Legal Opinion
Gwaltney v. Stone
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 13, 1989No. 1870PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLY, Judge:
In this opinion we are called upon to determine 1 whether a cause of action, which accrued in Tennessee but was filed in Pennsylvania, was time-barred by the one year limitations period set forth in a Tennessee statute of limitations which applied in this Pennsylvania case pursuant to a Pennsylvania borrowing statute. For the reasons which follow, we find that the action was time-barred, and that the trial court properly dismissed the complaint. Accordingly, we affirm.
The facts and procedural history are not in dispute. Vicki Gwaltney and Charles Gwaltney, plaintiffs-appellants,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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