SHANGLER, Judge.
This proceeding in mandamus petitions us to direct the trial court, as a matter of right, to dismiss an action for wrongful death as within the bar of limitations. The precise question the proceeding poses is: whether the 1979 amendment to the wrongful death statutes which enlarges the period of limitations applies to an existent cause of action.
On June 6, 1979, Everett Peace, Jr. died. The statutes then extant [§§ 537.080...
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