A person cannot use a disability as an excuse to get extra time to file a lawsuit unless that disability already existed when the right to sue first started.
516.270. not to avail, unless. — No person shall avail himself of any disability herein enumerated, unless such disability existed at the time his or of .
(RSMo 1939 § 1030)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 878; 1919 § 1333; 1909 § 1904
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