Chart v. Gutmann

The question involved in this appeal as agreed to by the parties is: Whether or not a tort claimant who has exhausted the statutory-claims procedure and in addition has introduced appropriate legislation in the state legislature to appropriate compensation for injuries received, which legislation subsequently failed to pass said state legislature, may then commence suit in a circuit court in this state for the recovery of money damages against the state of Wisconsin.

This case once again presents an attack on the venerable doctrine of governmental immunity from suit by tort claimants in the…