Evans v. Ober

— Procrastination, it is said, is the thief of time. Whether the procrastination is that of the plaintiffs, or of their counsel in this ease, something more than time has been lost. Why parties who conceive they have a cause of action against another will delay commencing it until the statute of limitations is treading closely on their heels is difficult to understand. We have been faced in recent years with several eases in which the original notice has not been served until only a short time remained before the running of the statute; and in which some defect, claimed or valid, in the…