Garner v. Hunt

MADDOX, Justice.

The issue in this case involves the application of Alabama’s statute that tolls the running of the limitations period for filing an action when the injured person is a minor. In applying that statute, the specific question is which of the following statutes controls:(1) The statute establishing the age of majority that was in effect at the time of the injury, setting the age at 21,1 or(2) a later statute that lowered the age of majority to 19.2

The trial court held that the later statute applied and that the plaintiff’s claims were time-barred, and it entered a summary judgment…