Schultz v. Schwartz

Miller, j.:

Appellant, Ascención Schultz, intended to sue an individual for injuries resulting from a car accident. The petition to initiate the suit was mailed to the clerk of the Douglas County District Court in Lawrence on Thursday, January 15, 1998. The petition was mailed from the office of the appellant’s attorney, Jerry Levy, also located in Lawrence. The statute of limitations for the cause of action expired on Tuesday, January 20, 1998. The courts were closed January 17 through January 19,1998, for the weekend and the observance of the Martin Luther King holiday. There was no mail…