Cranor v. School District No. 2 of Township No. 62 of Range No. 82
Supreme Court of Missouri
Transferred from Kansas Gity Court of Appeals. (1) The canse of action was barred by the provisions of the act of April 9th, 1895. The law in force at the time the suit is commenced must govern, and not that in existence when the right of action accrued. Billion v. Walsh, 46 Mo. 492; Gilker v. Brown, 47 Mo. 105. It is competent for the legislature to change or shorten the time within which suits may be brought.' 13 Am. and Eng. Ency.
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Transferred from Kansas Gity Court of Appeals. (1) The canse of action was barred by the provisions of the act of April 9th, 1895. The law in force at the time the suit is commenced must govern, and not that in existence when the right of action accrued. Billion v. Walsh, 46 Mo. 492; Gilker v. Brown, 47 Mo. 105. It is competent for the legislature to change or shorten the time within which suits may be brought.' 13 Am. and Eng. Ency. Law, pp. 695 to 703. (2) The act, then, changes the rule of evidence, and declares a new rule which shall be applicable to all actions thereafter brought. If the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
This cause, appealed to the Kansas City Court of Appeals, has been transferred to the Supreme Court because of a seeming conflict of the opinion rendered in the case by the court of appeals, with Meyer to use v. Mehrhoff, 19 Mo. App. 682.
On the 20th day of March, 1882, the plaintiff recovered in the circuit court of Gentry county a judgment against the *123defendant fertile sum of $180 debt, and $400 cost. No part of this judgment seems to have been paid, and on the 13th day of January, 1896, this suit was instituted by plaintiff against defendant in the same court upon that judgment.
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