REISTAD v. MANZ


11 Wis.2d 155 (1960)

REISTAD, Executrix, Appellant, v. MANZ and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

October 4, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there were briefs by Crowns, Crowns & Merklein of Wisconsin Rapids, and oral argument by Byron C. Crowns and Robert J. Merklein.

For the respondents there was a brief by Stafford, Pfiffner & Stafford of Chippewa Falls, and oral argument by Robert F. Pfiffner.


BROADFOOT, J.

The plaintiff contends that neither the notice-of-injury statute nor the statute of limitations commences to run at the time when a surgeon leaves foreign bodies within the body of a patient but said statutes begin to run from the time that the patient, in the exercise of due diligence, first discovers the presence of such foreign objects in his body. It is contended that this exact question has never been...

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