Court Opinion

ID: 9662802
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:18:37.651987+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:42.712880
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STEPHENS, Chief Justice,
concurring.
Respectfully, I concur in result only.
While I agree that the action should be dismissed, I do not agree that the statute of limitations began running with the filing of the mechanic’s lien. The majority opinion, following Bonnie Braes Farms, Inc. v. Robinson, Ky.App., 598 S.W.2d 765 (1980), states that special damages must have been pled and proven in order to maintain a slander of title action. In order to plead and prove special damages, they must exist.
*241This Court has held in a line of attorney malpractice decisions that until the “harm became fixed and non-speculative, the statute did not begin to run.” Alagia, Day, Trautwein & Smith v. Broadbent, Ky., 882 S.W.2d 121, 125 (1994); See also, Michels v. Sklavos, Ky., 869 S.W.2d 728 (1994); Hibbard v. Taylor, Ky., 837 S.W.2d 500 (1992). In the present case the statute should not begin to run until the time of the foreclosure action. The foreclosure action was commenced in October of 1991. The Montgomery’s claim for slander of title was filed in December of 1992 and is, therefore, time barred under KRS 413.140.
LEIBSON and STUMBO, JJ., join in this opinion.