Staples v. Waite

Under the provisions of § 478, C. P. A., the following question has been certified to this court by the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District, viz.: “In assumpsit brought in Rhode Island on a debt contracted in the state of Maine, both the plaintiff and defendant at the time said alleged debt accrued being residents of Maine, is a plea of the statute of limitations in Rhode Island a good plea in bar, it appearing that the plaintiff, since such debt was contracted in Maine, has always been and was at the time of bringing his action a resident of Maine; that the defendant was…