David J. Fries v. Chicago & Northwestern Transportation Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• indicating that a plaintiffs awareness of an injury or its cause is an objective review
• explaining that the discovery rule requires “an objective inquiry into when the plaintiff knew or should have known, in the exercise of reasonable diligence, the essential facts of injury and cause”
• stating “the injured plaintiff need not be certain which cause ... is the governing cause but only need know or have reason to know of a potential cause”
• rejecting “the idea that when a plaintiff suspects several causes, the cause of action does not accrue until the governing, or even most probable, cause is known”
• rejecting “the idea that when a plaintiff suspects several causes, the cause of action does not accrue until the governing, or even most probable, cause is known”
• rejecting “the idea that when a plaintiff suspects several causes, the cause of action does not accrue until the governing, or even most probable, cause is known”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).