Dewey v. Hastings

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that where cause of action has accrued but right to sue depends on condition precedent, limitation period is not tolled where plaintiff has ability to perform condition precedent
• concluding that limitation period was not tolled where plaintiff who had disappeared in Philippines was unaware that assets due him under trust had been distributed to his heirs based on mistaken finding that plaintiff was dead
• describing as “fundamental [the] principle that remedies are governed by the law of the forum”
• statute of limitations for breach of contract begins running with the breach even though damages do not occur until afterwards
• “It is not the policy of the law to permit a party to postpone the operation of the statute [of limitations] indefinitely by failing to do an act within his power which is necessary to perfect his remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).