Case Name: WHITFIELD v. ALLISON
Court: United States District Court for the District of Mississippi
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1867
Citations: 29 F. Cas. 1053
Docket Number: 
Parties: WHITFIELD v. ALLISON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 29
Pages: 1053–1053

Head Matter:
Case Wo. 17,571.
WHITFIELD v. ALLISON.
[2 Am. Law Rev. 188.]
District Court, D. Mississippi.
1867.
Running of Limitations — Suspension by Civil War.
[The suspension of the federal court in Mississippi by reason of the Rebellion, suspended the running of limitations as to persons having a right to pursue their remedies in that court.]
[See Case No. 12,006.]
[Nowhere fully reported; opinion not now accessible.]

Opinion:
HILL, District Judge,
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.