Gates v. Shaffer

Citations

• 72 Wash. 451
• 130 P. 896
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1486

Syllabus

<p>Limitation of Actions — Seduction — Accrual — Disabilities— Minority. Since, under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 186, only females over twenty-one years of age may maintain an action for their own seduction, the right of action for seduction while a minor accrues to her when she becomes twenty-one years of age; and not at the age of majority, eighteen years, under § 8743; and the action must be commenced within three years after becoming twenty-one, under § 159, requiring an action for seduction to be begun within three years after the cause accrues, and § 169, providing that, if the person entitled to bring an action be under twenty-one when the cause accrues, the time of the disability shall not he a part of the time limited.</p>