Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 27. CIVIL LIABILITY, REMEDIES, AND LIMITATIONS

CHAPTER 2. STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS

Part 4. Circumstances Which Extend Period of Limitations

When Action Terminated Or Judgment Reversed

27-2-407. When action terminated or judgment reversed. If an action is commenced within the time limited for the action and a judgment is reversed on appeal without awarding a new trial or the action is terminated in any other manner than by a voluntary discontinuance, a dismissal of the complaint for neglect to prosecute the action, or a final judgment upon the merits, the plaintiff or, if the plaintiff dies and the cause of action survives, the plaintiff's representative may commence a new action for the same cause after the expiration of the time limited and within 1 year after a reversal or termination.

History: En. Sec. 17, p. 469, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 15, p. 518, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 51, p. 50, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 51, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 51, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; amd. Sec. 547, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6464, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9054, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 355; re-en. Sec. 9054, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-2708; amd. Sec. 602, Ch. 56, L. 2009.