New Orleans Great Northern Railroad v. Fortenberry

Citations

• 107 Miss. 79
• 64 So. 966

Syllabus

<p>Limitation of Actions. Code 1906, section 3114. Applicability.</p> <p>Section 3114, Code 1906, providing that suit cannot he maintained in this state on a cause of action accrued in another state, where defendant has resided before residing in this state, if under the statute of limitations in that state, the action cannot there be maintained, applies only where a nonresident, in whose favor the statute had accrued, afterwards removes into this state, and hence a railroad company which, during the period pleaded as a bar, was operating a railroad in this state and therefore sueable as a resident here, cannot plead said statute against an action brought in this state for personal injury inflicted in another state, where the statute of limitations would, if suit were there brought, bar the action.</p>