Court Opinion

ID: 9681504
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:51:44.198739+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:34.287760
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WELLIVER, Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. Respondent only could have waived the applicability of the Dead Man’s Statute by introducing evidence of a transaction with the decedent. See generally Prentzler v. Schneider, 411 S.W.2d 135, 141-42 (Mo. banc 1966); Lampe v. Franklin American Trust Co., 339 Mo. 361, 96 S.W.2d 710 (1936). In Saupe v. Kertz, 523 S.W.2d 826 (Mo. banc 1975), the Court held that the filing of a counterclaim without the affirmative introduction of evidence does not waive the protection of the Dead Man’s Statute. Id. at 831.
I would affirm the judgment.