Huggins v. Hospital Board of Monongalia County

Caplan, Justice:

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Monongalia County entered September 9, 1976, dismissing plaintiff’s wrongful death action on the *558ground that it was not properly commenced within the statutory period of two years.

On August 3, 1974 Diana Huggins died, several days following childbirth, while a patient at Monongalia General Hospital. On August 3, 1976, Attorney Raymond H. Yackel filed a complaint in the Circuit Clerk’s office of Monongalia County for a wrongful death action on behalf of Gail Huggins, administrator of the estate of the deceased. The…