Court Opinion

ID: 9662209
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:02:59.654649+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:37.795927
License: Public Domain

BARDGETT, Judge
(concurring).
I concur but believe it necessary for me to state that the basis of my concurrence is that the only statute of limitations available to the defendant in a wrongful death case is the two-year statute of limitations set forth in § 537.100, V.A.M.S. Therefore, it is my opinion that plaintiff here, the surviving spouse of the deceased, would not be barred from instituting this wrongful death suit prior to the expiration of the two-year period even if the deceased had left surviving him, in addition to his spouse, a mother or father, because, as the principal opinion states, “the period of limitations is not shortened, as far as the tort-feasor is concerned, by the existence of more than one class of persons such as the surviving spouse or minor children” and, I would add, “or a mother or father.”