Nolan v. Johns-Manville Asbestos

How courts have described this case

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• discussing deceased’s knowledge of injury as triggering limitations period in cause that became survival claim during appeal
• discussing deceased's knowledge of injury as triggering limitations period in cause that became survival claim during appeal
• stating the above proposition and adding that, “once it reasonably appears that an injury was wrongfully caused, the party may not slumber on his rights”
• observing that if knowledge of legally negligent conduct were the standard, “a party could wait to bring an action far beyond a reasonable time when sufficient notice has been received of a possible invasion of one’s legally protected interests.”
• discussing deceased's knowledge of injury as triggering limitations period in cause that became survival claim during appeal
• applying discovery rule to alleviate \the hardship to the plaintiff who neither knows nor reasonably should know that he is being injured.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).