Legal Opinion
DeFourneaux v. Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided April 3, 1980No. Civ. B 78-437PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
ELLEN B. BURNS, District Judge.
This case involves a Connecticut defendant’s allegedly negligent manufacture of a gun which accidentally discharged in Missouri and killed plaintiff’s decedent, a twenty-seven-year old Missouri resident. Defendant has moved to dismiss the entire case on the basis that Missouri’s one-year statute of limitation on wrongful death has passed.
Missouri’s wrongful death statute, Vernon’s Annot.Mo.Stat. § 537.080(2), is unusual. It provides that claims for wrongful death vest in the decedent’s spouse and minor children for a period of one year from…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co. of America, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1956
- American Masons' Supply Co. v. F. W. Brown Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1978
- State Ex Rel. Sisters of St. Mary v. CampbellMissouri Court of Appeals · 1974
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Saloomey v. Jeppesen & Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
- Economu v. Borg-Warner Corp.District Court, D. Connecticut · 1987
- Halstead v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Connecticut · 1982
- Feldt v. Sturm, Ruger & Co.District Court, D. Connecticut · 1989
- Rosenthal v. Ford Motor Co., Inc.District Court, D. Connecticut · 2006
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