Booth Glass Co. v. Huntingfield Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where legislature has not ex pressly provided for exception in statute of limitations, court will not allow any implied equitable exception to be grafted upon it
• declining to recognize a tolling exception because “the legislature ... made no such provision” that would toll the statute in accordance with the proposed tolling exception
• “Indeed, the General Assembly has expressly provided exceptions to § 5-101 in those instances where it determined that a time limitation should be computed differently.”
• conduct of parties will toll statute if the defendant made any inducements not to file suit or indicated that limitations would not be pled
• continuation of events theory does not defer running of limitations on owner’s claim asserting negligence in original glass installation against subcontractor which thereafter had been endeavoring to correct the defective work
• “We have long adhered to the principle that where the legislature has not expressly provided for an exception in a statute of limitations, the court will not allow any implied or equitable exception to be engrafted upon it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).