Lord v. Smith

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Lord, the plaintiff in the trial court, filed a petition on March 11, 1972, seeking damages for personal injuries allegedly inflicted when he was shot by Smith. The date of injury is not alleged. The defendant filed an answer on May 15, 1972, pleading justification for the shooting and urging the affirmative defense of the statute of limitation in that the date of injury was February 13, 1970, more than two years before the filing of the complaint. Eventually a judgment on the pleadings was entered in favor of the defendant based on the running of the statute of…