Whitfield v. Allison
This text of 29 F. Cas. 1053 (Whitfield v. Allison) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering District Court, D. Mississippi primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
held that the time during which the United States court for the district of Mississippi was suspended, from about the 9th of January, 1801, to the 1st of June. 1866, must be deducted from the time constituting the bar under the statute of limitations; the complainant having, from the execution of the obligation, been and remained a citizen of another state, and entitled to bring his bill in the United States court, — in other words, that the supension of the court, by reason o’f the Rebellion, suspended the statute of limitations as to all persons having a right to pursue their remedies in the national courts, the functions of which were so suspended.
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