Legal Opinion
Thurman v. Tafoya
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided May 22, 1995No. 94SC106PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lohr
We granted certiorari to review the Colorado Court of Appeals’ opinion in Thurman v. Tafoya, 878 P.2d 7 (Colo.App.1993), concluding that a promissory note held by Denis F. Thurman, the petitioner, and executed by Joseph A. Tafoya and Therese H. Tafoya, the respondents, was unenforceable due to the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations period. Thurman argued that 11 U.S.C. § 108(c) (1988) tolled the statute of limitations period for enforcement of the note for a period equal to the amount of time the Tafoyas were under bankruptcy court protection. Alternatively, Thurman claimed…
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