Court Opinion

ID: 9632858
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:26:19.601638+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:00:27.502068
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Concurring Opinion by
Justice ABRAMSON.
I concur in the result reached by the majority only because I agree that we ought not to penalize the plaintiff, Mabel Smith, for her counsel’s reliance on the overly broad reading of the saving statute, KRS 413.270, which the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals propounded in Shircliff v. Elliott, 384 F.2d 947 (6th Cir.1967), and which this State’s highest Court suggested in D. & J. Leasing, Inc. v. Hercules Galion Products, Inc., 429 S.W.2d 854 (Ky.1968). I agree with Justice Minton, however, that that broad reading does not comport with the statutory language, and so henceforth would limit application of KRS 413.270 and KRS 452.105 to the circumstances the General Assembly has specified. In short, the dissent reflects what I believe is the correct interpretation of the two statutes.