Barker v. Saunders

Woods, Judge:

Tbe controlling question raised on this certificate is whether or not tbe one year statute of limitation (Code 1931, 55-2-12) applies to a mother’s right to recover hospital expenses incurred and paid by her as natural guardian of an infant son by reason of a tort committed on such son by the defendant.

The declaration (filed 1933) is composed of one special count and the common counts in assumpsit. The special count avers, among other things, that the defendant, in August, 1930, did negligently, etc., injure plaintiff’s infant son; that as a result thereof it became necessary for…