Action on written contract
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Ward v. Intermountain Farmers Ass'n (1995)
Most recently applied in Paul A. Woodie and Kimberly A. Woodie A/K/A Kymberly A. Woodie A/K/A Kym Woodie, Husband and Wife v. Janet Whitesell (November 2019)
C.C.P. 1881, § 156; R.S., R.C., & C.L., § 4052; C.S., § 6609; I.C.A., § 5-216; am. 1939, ch. 244, § 1, p. 590.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Within five (5) years:
An action upon any contract, obligation or liability founded upon an instrument in writing.
The limitations prescribed by this section shall never apply to actions in the name or for the benefit of the state and shall never be asserted nor interposed as a defense to any action in the name or for the benefit of the state although such limitations may have become fully operative as a defense prior to the adoption of this amendment.
Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.