Wolverine Insurance Co. v. Tower Iron Works, Inc.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts allowing the defendant’s motion for summary judgment and dismissing the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff’s claim is barred by the Massachusetts statute of limitations. The basic question presented is when the plaintiff’s cause of action accrued.

Since the case was disposed of on summary judgment, we take the facts to be as alleged in the complaint and stipulated by the parties. The plaintiff, Wolverine, is a Michigan insurance company suing as assignee and…