Fawer v. Evans

McRAE, Justice,

for the Court:

This appeal arises from a summary judgment in favor of Donald Evans in a suit for attorneys’ fees originally brought in a Mississippi state court by Evans’ attorney, Michael S. Fawer, and then removed to federal district court on diversity grounds. The district court granted Evans’ summary judgment motion on the ground that the action was time barred since it was subject to the one-year statute of limitation period controlled by Miss.Code Ann. § 15-1-29 (Supp.1992) for actions based on an unwritten contract of employment rather than the three-year statute of…