· 9/21/1976
Praznik v. Sport Aero, Inc.
Citations
- 355 N.E.2d 686
- 42 Ill. App. 3d 330
- 1976 Ill. App. LEXIS 3127
How courts have described this case
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- considering hardship to plaintiffs in applying discovery rule when relevant statute provided that “every [wrongful death] action shall be commenced within 2 years after the death ...”
- framing the discovery rule as requiring the court to \look at the difficulty of proof created by the passing of time as balanced against the hardship to the plaintiff who neither knows nor should have known of the existence of a right to sue\
- “While a wrongful death action is a right created by statute, and ... may not be ignored, we are not convinced that in all cases the two-year period must begin to run at the moment of death.... ”
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Judges: Downing
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