Legal Opinion
Birdsell v. Holiday Inns
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 1, 1988No. 87-2272PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.
When a robbery took place at the Holiday Inn in Kansas City, Kansas on February 19, 1983, Stephen Birdsell, husband of plaintiff Judy Birdsell, was killed and plaintiff Douglass Glasscock injured. Exactly two years later, the period of time permitted to bring the action under the appropriate Kansas statute of limitations,1 these parties filed diversity actions against defendants Holiday Inn and its manager Bruce Kent in the federal district court for the Western District of Missouri seeking damages for wrongful death (Birdsell) and injuries (Glasscock).…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Kennedy v. DixonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1969
- Miller v. HaynesMissouri Court of Appeals · 1970
- Devine v. RookMissouri Court of Appeals · 1958
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Modern Computer Systems, Inc. v. Modern Banking Systems, Inc. Modern Banking Systems of Southern WisconsinCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1988
- Dahlberg v. HarrisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
- Penalosa Cooperative Exchange v. A.S. Polonyi Co.District Court, W.D. Missouri · 1990
- Davis v. Liberty Mutual InsuranceDistrict Court, E.D. Missouri · 1993
- Birdsell v. Holiday InnsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1988
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