Outboard Marine v. Florida Stevedoring Corp.

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• clerk has ministerial duty to accept complaint for filing even though insufficient filing fees tendered
• action commenced for statute of limitations purposes when complaint was submitted to the clerk even though it was then returned to plaintiffs' counsel because correct filing fee was not attached

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).