Gwaltney v. Stone

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the Tennessee statute of limitations to a cause of action filed in Pennsylvania
• purpose of borrowing statute is “to prevent a plaintiff who sues in Pennsylvania from obtaining greater rights than those available in the state where the cause of action arose”
• “The accident occurred in Tennessee. Hence, the cause of action accrued in Tennessee.”
• “The provisions of Pennsylvania’s borrowing statute unequivocally evince the legislative intent to prevent a plaintiff who sues in Pennsylvania from obtaining greater rights than those available in the state where the cause of action arose.”
• “The provisions of Pennsylvania’s borrowing statute unequivocally evince the legislative intent to prevent a plaintiff who sues in Pennsylvania from obtaining greater rights than those available in the state where the cause of action arose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).