Dalton v. Dow Chemical Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “ignorance of a cause of action not involving continuing negligence or trespass, or fraud on the part of the defendant, does not toll the accrual of a cause of action”
• “Until there is some damage, there is no claim and certainly a statute prescribing the time in which suit must be filed * * * can never operate prior to the time a suit would be permitted.”
• rejecting “subjective determination” of accrual of cause of action

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