Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co.

Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co.
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	337 U.S. 530 (more) 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

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