Legal Opinion
Joan Evans Wilburn v. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of St. Louis
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 11, 1974No. 73-1744PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff-Joan Evans Wilburn brought this diversity action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, alleging that she sustained personal injuries in an accident in Belleville, Illinois, as a result of the negligence of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Plaintiff filed her suit on July 6, 1973, more than two years after the date of the accident, May 18, 1971, and defendant moved to dismiss on the ground that the action was barred by the Illinois two-year statute of limitations 1 which applies to this cause of action under the Missouri…
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