Venner v. Denver Union Water Co.

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• finding action to collect a civil penalty under the State’s usury statute does not survive
• Malicious prosecution and defamation take a one-year statute of limitations under W.Va. Code , 55-2-12(c).
• false arrest and imprisonment and malicious prosecution have a one-year statute of limitations
• “[P]ersonal tort actions such as defamation, false arrest and imprisonment, and malicious prosecution . . . lacking statutory survivability and possessing no common law survivability, take a one-year statute of limitations under W.Va.Code, 55-2-12(c).”
• “Under customary rules of statutory construction, the 1959 changes to W. Va.Code, 55-2-12, must be read in pari materia with W. Va.Code, 55-7-8a, since both relate to the same subject matter and were adopted as a part of a common plan.”

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