GONZALEZ PEREZ v. ROMNEY ORCHARDS, INC.

No. 19664.

399 S.E.2d 50 (1990)

Franklyn GONZALEZ PEREZ, Victor Gonzalez Perez, and Horacia Perez v. ROMNEY ORCHARDS, INC. Angel SOTOMAYOR PAGAN, Luis Otero Herrara, Jose M. Hernandez, Alfredo Acevedo, Jorge L. Amonte Alers, Anicasio Heredia Serrano, and Angel L. Medina v. EWERS ORCHARDS & Randolph L. Ewers Jose M. BONILLA ROJAS, Esteban Velez Roca, Antonio Gonzalez Aleman, Angel Luis Maldonado Vega, Redin A. Rivera and Carmello Velazquez Baez v. EWERS ORCHARDS Luis MASS RASADO v. EWERS ORCHARDS and Randolph L. Ewers.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

October 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garry G. Geffert, Martinsburg, David McMahon, WV Legal Services Plan, Inc., Charleston, for appellants.

Loudoun L. Thompson, Thompson & Parson, Romney, for appellee.

Ralph W. Haines, Romney, amicus curiam for appellee.


MILLER, Justice:

This appeal involves the time period in which a suit must be filed in this State to enforce a foreign judgment. In 1979, 1980, and 1981, several migrant workers obtained judgments in Puerto Rico against West Virginia apple growers (the employers).1 In 1987, the migrant workers filed suit to enforce the judgments in the Circuit Court of Hampshire County. The trial court found that the action was not timely filed; therefore...

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