Court Opinion

ID: 9865077
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 16:22:47.394884+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:37:06.374523
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Mr. Justice Hilliard,
concurring.
I concur in the affirmance of the judgment. The undenied and unexplained absence of the defendant from Nebraska, detailed in the opinion of Mr. Justice Campbell and the concurring opinion by Mr. Chief Justice Butler, so operated that had action been instituted in that state the statute of limitations, there would not have availed the debtor. This, not controverted, clearly appears from section 20-214, Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, 1929, introduced in evidence. Defendant’s sole reliance is section 6408, C. L. 1921. This section is numbered 2 of an act entitled “Limitations-Causes Arising Outside of State” *85(e. 171, Session Laws 1921, p. 579). The legislature set forth the limitation of the right to maintain an action under defined conditions, and provided the procedure in relation thereto. Section 1 of the 1921 act (§6407, C. L.) evidenced the purpose of the general assembly to afford to a debtor sued in Colorado relief from a creditor seeking judgment on a debt barred in the jurisdiction where the cause arose; and section 2 (§6408, C. L.) authorized the debtor to plead the bar contemplated in the first section. The record considered, I do not think it was the legislative intent that the debtor, unable to bring himself within the provisions of section 1 of the act, could nevertheless invoke section 2, and thereby avoid the obligation of his Nebraska debt when the Nebraska statute would not have absolved him. In its application here, I think the act should be construed as an entirety, the two sections not to be disassociated.