SPEIGHT v. MILLER

No. 18309.

437 F.2d 781 (1971)

Maggie P. SPEIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Rose Lowe MILLER, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 26, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan E. Morrill and William J. Harrison, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Louis Gershon and Horace W. Jordan, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee Rose Lowe Miller.

Before CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge, and CUMMINGS and STEVENS, Circuit Judges.


STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff asserts a personal injury claim arising out of an accident in Nashville, Tennessee, on November 4, 1967. Her complaint, filed in the District Court on March 17, 1969, was dismissed as barred by Tennessee's one-year statute of limitations.1 She contends that her claim was preserved by the filing of an earlier action in the Tennessee courts on October 16, 1968, less than a year after the accident. She was...

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