Stone v. Ethan Allen, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that breach of contract requires, inter alia, “harm or damage to the plaintiff as a proximate consequence of the violation or breach”
• plaintiff alleged refrigerator was defective when delivered, several years later, it caught fire, damaging their home, court found statute of limitations for negligence accrued the date of the fire, not the date it was delivered
• “[W]here an injury, though slight, is sustained in consequence of the wrongful or negligent act of another and the law affords a remedy therefor the statute of limitations attaches at once.” (emphasis omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).