United States Fire Insurance Co. v. E. D. Wesley Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a court is required to avoid construing a statute so as to render it unconstitutional
• stating the “general rule in Wisconsin” is that legislation is presumptively prospective unless the statutory language clearly reveals an intent that the statute apply retroactively
• statute construed under similar facts as inapplicable, on grounds of impermissible retroactivity, to avoid constitutional problems
• statute construed under similar facts as inapplicable, on grounds of impermissible retroactivity, to avoid constitutional problems
• injury resulting from improvements to real property; quoted by Paul Revere for time of accrual of action under common law; decision observed that statute rejected common law approach and explicitly applied § 893.89
• Supreme Court did not reach constitutional issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).