2010 Tennessee Code
Title 28 - Limitation Of Actions
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
28-1-111 - Suspension during absence from state.

28-1-111. Suspension during absence from state.

If at any time any cause of action shall accrue against any person who shall be out of this state, the action may be commenced within the time limited therefor, after such person shall have come into the state; and, after any cause of action shall have accrued, if the person against whom it has accrued shall be absent from or reside out of the state, the time of absence or residence out of the state shall not be taken as any part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.

[Acts 1865, ch. 10, § 3; Shan., § 4455; Code 1932, § 8581; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 28-112.]  

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