Gower v. Moore

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the word “shall” generally connotes a mandatory duty, and mandatory duties prescribed by rules or statutes “must be obeyed.”
• noting that “[a] defendant who does not raise a statute of limitations defense in the trial court waives the right to assert that defense”; citing Longhibler v. State, 832 S.W.2d 908, 911 (Mo. 1992)
• referring to definitions of a term found in other case law and the dictionary when term was undefined in a Missouri Supreme Court Rule
• stating motions filed under Rules 29.15 and 24.035 “represent a collateral attack on a final judgment of the court” (internal quotation omitted)
• noting Rule 24.035 motions represent a “collateral attack on a final judgment of a court” (quoting White v. State, 939 S.W.2d 887, 893 (Mo. banc 1997))
• addressing a statutory limit on post-judgment interest for medical negligence actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).