130 Wis. 454 | Wis. | 1907
This action was commenced August 10, 1904, and was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant as the result of an accident which happened at the defendant’s shop in the city of Chicago, March 31, 1903. The defendant is a foreign corporation operating a manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, and on the 17th of September, 1901, had duly filed with the secretary of state an instrument appointing a resident attorney in this state as required by sec. 4231, Stats. 1898. The defendant by answer pleaded as a defense that part of subd. 5, sec. 4222, Stats. 1898, which provides that no action to recover damages for personal injuries shall be maintained unless a written notice thereof containing certain prescribed statements shall be served on the person responsible for the- injury within one year after the happening of the event. It was admitted on trial that no notice as required by said subdivision had been served. A verdict for the defendant was directed, and from judgment thereon the plaintiff appeals.
The controlling question presented is whether that part of sec. 4222 above referred to applies to a cause of action arising in another state when a resident of that state brings suit thereon against a resident of Wisconsin in a Wisconsin court. A few well-established principles seem to answer this question in the affirmative. The clause in question is a statute of limitations. Relyea v. Tomahawk P. & P. Co. 102 Wis. 301, 78 N. W. 412; O’Donnell v. New London, 113 Wis. 292, 89 N. W. 511; Meisenheimer v. Kellogg, 106 Wis. 30, 81 N. W. 1033; Lawton v. Waite, 103 Wis. 244, 79 N. W. 321; Gatzow v. Buening, 106 Wis. 1, 81 N. W. 1003. True, its operation is somewhat different from the operation of other statutes of limitation in that it acts upon the time within which a preliminary
So we hold that the provision in question is a limitation statute admitting of no exception; that it applies to both foreign and domestic causes of action; that it acts like any other statute of limitations, extinguishing the right in a domestic cause of action' as to all jurisdictions, and extinguishing the
By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.