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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Thomsen v. Mill, 248 S.W.2d 6 (1952)

Citation
Thomsen v. Mill, 248 S.W.2d 6 (1952)
Parent Document
Thomsen v. Mill, 248 S.W.2d 6 (1952)
Jurisdiction
Missouri (state)
Effective Date
1952-03-03

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In discussing the particular federal statute in question the United States Circuit Court for the Tenth Circuit said in Matheny v. Porter, 158 F.2d 478, 479: "[1] But here, section 205(e) creates a new liability, one unknown to the common law and not finding its source elsewhere. It creates the right of action and fixes the time within which a suit for the enforcement of the right must be commenced. It is a statute of creation, and when the period fixed by its terms has run, the substantive right and the corresponding liability end. Not only is the remedy no longer available, but the right of action itself is extinguished. The commencement of the action within the time is an indispensable condition of the liability. (citations). [2] In a case of this kind brought under the provisions of a statute creating the right of action where none previously existed and qualifies the right of action by requiring that the suit to enforce it be brought within a limited time, it must affirmatively appear from the face of the complaint that the action was commenced within the prescribed time."