147 U.S. 647· 3/6/1893

Bauserman v. Blunt

Syllabus

<p>The construction given by the Supreme Court of a State to a statute of limitations of the State will be followed by this court, even in a case decided, the other way in the Circuit Court before the decision of the state court.</p> <p>The statute of limitations of Kansas, as construed by the Supreme Court of the State, does not run while the debtor is personally absent from the State, although he retains a usual place of residence therein, where a summons upon him might be served.</p> <p>The statute of limitations of Kansas, as construed by the Supreme Court of the State, stops running at the death of the debtor, but for sir . . reasonable time only as will enable the creditor to have an administrator appointed.</p>

Judges: Gray

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