Wilkinson v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““Appellant takes the position that while infancy is the only disability made an exception to the four-year period by the act of 1839, now section 8932 of the Civil Code, nevertheless, the Legislature meant by that enactment that other exceptions and legal disabilities should be read into and included within the meaning of the act. In this, we cannot agree. This act was passed seven years after the decision in the case of Kinard v. Riddlehoover, 3 Rich. 258 , in which the court held that parties in interest should have four years in which to require proof of will in solemn form after the granting of probate in common form unless the parties in interest, or some of them, should be laboring under some legal disability to sue, and in such cases within four years next after the removal of such disability. With this decision before it, the Legislature restricted the disabilities to the one disability of infancy. No doubt, if the Legislature had intended to include any other legal disability or exception, it would have said so.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wooten v. Wooten