The time between the death of a person and the grant of letters testamentary or of administration on such person's estate, not exceeding six (6) months, and the six (6) months within which a personal representative is exempt from suit, is not to be taken as a part of the time limited for commencing actions which lie against the personal representative.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-1-110
Suspension pending administration of estate
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Norman Redwing v. Catholic Bishop for the Diocese of Memphis (2012)
Most recently applied in Julia Putman v. John W. Leach Administrator Ad Litem of the Estate of Bryane R. Litsinberger (January 2018)
Code 1858, § 2760; Shan., § 4451; Code 1932, § 8577; T.C.A
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.