Leavy v. Saunders

How courts have described this case

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

• observing “[v]arious matters growing out of the relationship of the parties (not involving courts) may determine the availability of the defense of statute of limitations”
• applying § 8118’s predecessor to cases originally brought in another state
• “Stat[ute] of limitations is a defense which is personal to the defendant.”
• “Ordinarily statutes of limitations are concerned with causes of action or parties and they are applied without differentiating as to the court in which they are invoked. The real function of a statute of limitations is to protect prospective litigants against stale claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).