Munday v. Mayfair Diagnostic Laboratory

LAMBERT, Justice.

The issue presented is whether the failure of partners doing business under an assumed name to comply with KRS 365.-015, an act which requires the filing of a certificate of assumed name, tolls the statute of limitations for tort actions against them. In Hayes v. Providence Citizens’ Bank & Trust Co., 218 Ky. 128, 290 S.W. 1028 (1927), this Court held that the purpose of the assumed name statute was protection of the public from fraud and deceit by requiring disclosure of the identi*913ties of persons doing business under an assumed name; that the statutory provision which…