Court Opinion

ID: 9680066
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:18:38.793517+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:25.167692
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GUNN, Judge
(dissenting).
The majority opinion correctly and precisely recites the law applicable to the circumstances of this case. But I am constrained to dissent from the conclusions reached in the majority opinion, in that I would hold that there was a lack of due diligence exercised by the plaintiffs to obtain service of process on the defendant. I cannot find that the trial court was in error in failing to conclude that there had been a diligent prosecution of the plaintiffs’ claim by their nonfeasance to inquire as to the status of the service of process for a seven month, 14 day period after the statute of limitations had run on plaintiffs’ cause of action. See Continental Electric Company v. Ebco, Incorporated, 375 S.W.2d 134 (Mo.1964); Wooliver v. Schopp, 509 S.W.2d 216 (Mo.App.1974); Hennis v. Tucker, 447 S.W.2d 580 (Mo.App.1969).