Can a surety obtain reimbursement from a creditor after the statute of limitations has run out?

Stone v. Hammell (1890) 83 Cal. 547, 23 P. 703, although occasionally cited as holding that the surety cannot obtain reimbursement after the statute of limitations has run on the principal debt, is not on point. The action by the surety in that case was not barred because the statutory period had run on the principal debt, but because it had also run on a cause of action for reimbursement.