STATUTES OF LIMITATION ON DECEDENT'S CAUSE OF ACTION

15-3-109. STATUTES OF LIMITATION ON DECEDENT'S CAUSE OF ACTION. No statute of limitation running on a cause of action belonging to a decedent which had not been barred as of the date of his death, shall apply to bar a cause of action surviving the decedent's death sooner than four (4) months after death. A cause of action which, but for this section, would have been barred less than four (4) months after death, is barred after four (4) months unless tolled.