Snell v. Columbia Gun Exchange, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding the date of “loss” for purposes of the Act was the date on which the plaintiff knew of the injury
• holding reasonable diligence requires an injured party to act with promptness where circumstances of an injury would put a person of common knowledge and experience on notice that some claim may exist
• defining reasonable diligence as requiring an injured party to act with promptness where circumstances of an injury would put a person of common knowledge and experience on notice that some claim may exist
• “The statute of limitations begins to run from this point and not when advice of counsel is sought or a full-blown theory of recovery developed.”
• An accidental and unexplained discharge of a pistol places the injured party on notice that a defect in the weapon is possible.
• plaintiffs cause of action accrued when pistol discharged causing injury, because injured party was placed on notice that defect in weapon was possible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).