Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co.

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued April 20, 1949
Decided June 20, 1949

Full case name

Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co.

Citations

69 S. Ct. 1233; 93 L. Ed. 1520; 1949 U.S. LEXIS 2147

Court membership

Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson

Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton

Case opinions

Majority

Douglas, joined by Vinson, Black, Reed, Frankfurter, Murphy, Jackson, Burton

Dissent

Rutledge

Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co., 337 U.S. 530 (1949), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that federal courts sitting in diversity should begin the running of the statute of limitations for a claim according to state law instead of according to the federal rules of civil procedure. The court reasoned that a claim could not be given longer life in federal court than it would have had in a state court while being consistent with the holding in Erie Railroad v. Tompkins.^[1]

References

↑ Yeazell, S.C. Civil Procedure, Seventh Edition. Aspen Publishers, New York, NY: 2008, p. 236

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/30/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.