An action shall be deemed to commence on the date of the first summons or process issued in good faith from the court having jurisdiction of the cause of action.
KRS 413.250
When action commences
Applied in 35 court decisions — leading case Smith v. Peters (1973)
Most recently applied in Ken Isaacs v. Jeff Caldwell Member of Georgetown-Scott County Planning Commission (November 2017)
Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.