SOHN v. WATERSON, 84 U.S. 596 (1873)

SOHN v. WATERSON. OCTOBER TERM, 1873. In construing a statute of limitations, it must, so far as it affects rights of action in existence when the statute is passed, be held, in the absence of contrary provision, to begin when the cause of action is first subjected to its operation. Hence, when a right of […]

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84 U.S. 596

84 U.S. 596 84 U.S. 596 21 L.Ed. 737 17 Wall. 596 SOHNv.WATERSON. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Kansas; the case, as appeared by the pleadings, being thus: In 1854, one Sohn, a citizen of Ohio, obtained a judgment in one of the courts of the State named […]

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