The Martha

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “when appellant’s right of action on the note in question became barred under the previous statute, the respondent acquired a vested right, in this state, to plead that statute as a defense and bar to the action”
• framing its analysis of the legislature’s power to revive a time-barred limitations defense as a due process issue; holding that the legislature lacked the power to vitiate a vested right in a ripened statute of limitations defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).