State, Department of Health & Welfare Ex Rel. Gage v. Engelbert

How courts have described this case

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

• an appellate court may affirm a lower court’s decision on the correct theory where the decision was based on an erroneous theory
• “The statute of limitations in effect when the right of action is deemed to accrue defines the statutory period unless the legislature provides otherwise.”
• where order of lower court is correct, but based upon erroneous theory, order will be affirmed upon correct theory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).