The claim that is out of SOL should never be sued on in the first place. And it doesn't matter who owns it, it's SOL when the second guy sues on it too. Where the statute has applicability is for a claim that is sued on within SOL and later dismissed sometime after SOL would have run (had the claim not been pending), so now the creditor gets another shot at suing within the next 6 months (instead of "tacking" the tolled period onto the end of the pendency of the lawsuit, which could be a headache for the courts to work out on a case-by-case basis), but only one mulligan ... if he sues the nex