Petersen v. Wallach

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that under subsection (d), a plaintiff “has two years to file a claim unless letters of office are issued or the will is admitted to probate”
• characterizing subsection (d) as an exception to the six-year repose period for cases where the injury does not occur until after the death of the “person for whom the professional services were rendered”
• when statutory language is unambiguous, a court should not look beyond the language to the legislative history
• “because the language of [the statute] is unambiguous, it was improvident for the appellate court to look beyond the language of the statute to the legislative history”
• when statutory language is unambiguous, a court should not look beyond the language to the legislative history
• when statutory language is unambiguous, a court should not look beyond the language to the legislative history

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).