First National Bank v. Marlow

How courts have described this case

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• applying tort statute of limitations for plaintiff’s claim of breach of implied contract because failure to provide “appropriate” medical care substantively alleged a claim in tort, not contract
• invalidating two-year statute of limitations for wrongful death actions under former version of RSA 556:11
• right to assert statute of limitations defense vests once limitations period has run; part I, article 23 prohibits law from operating retroactively to impair that vested right
• claim barred by statute of limitations cannot be revived by a new law extending the limitations period
• claim barred by statute of limitations cannot be revived by a new law extending the limitations period
• unconstitutional under Part I, Article 23 to retrospectively apply amendment to statute of limitations when retrospective application would impair defendants’ vested right to assert a limitations defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).