Dissent Rutledge | End date 1949 | |
Full case name Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co. Citations 337 U.S. 530 (more)69 S. Ct. 1233; 93 L. Ed. 1520; 1949 U.S. LEXIS 2147 Majority Douglas, joined by Vinson, Black, Reed, Frankfurter, Murphy, Jackson, Burton People also search for Walker v. Armco Steel Corp. | ||
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.
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