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· 5/17/1982

Foster v. Harris

Citations

  • 633 S.W.2d 304
  • 1982 Tenn. LEXIS 405

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “no judicial remedy [is] available to [a] plaintiff until he [or she] discover[s], or reasonably should have discovered, (1) the occasion, the manner and means by which a breach of duty occurred that produced his [or her] injury; and (2
  • holding that “no judicial remedy [is] available to [a] plaintiff until he [or she] discover[s], or reasonably should have discovered, (1) the occasion, the manner and means by which a breach of duty occurred that produced his [or her] injury; and (2
  • “In this case, neither the injury nor the tortfeasor who perpetrated the injury were discovered until July 21, 1976.”
  • “In this case, neither the injury nor the tort feasor who perpetrated the injury were discovered until July 21, 1976.” (Emphasis added.
  • “The so-called ‘discovery doctrine’ was fashioned to alleviate the intolerable result of barring a cause of action by holding that it ‘accrued’ before the discovery of the injury or the wrong.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Fones, Harbison, Cooper, Brock, Drowota

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