Haase v. Sawicki

The issue on this appeal is whether the retroactive feature of sub. (2) of sec. 330.205, Stats., by which the legislature attempted to make a three-year lim itation applicable to causes of action which had become barred by the two-year limitation period, prior to January 31, 1962, offends the due-process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution and sec. 1, art. I of the Wisconsin constitution. 2

There is a division of authority with respect to whether a legislature may constitutionally revive a tort action, which has become barred by a statute of limitations, by…