Rowe v. John Deere

These consolidated cases involve two questions certified to this court by the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire (Loughlin, J.). See Sup. Ct. R. 34. The questions certified for our consideration are:(1) “Under New Hampshire law, is the Statute of Limitations tolled when, at the time of the accident, the plaintiff sustained some physical injury (i.e., depressed compound skull fracture) which served to notify the plaintiff of a violation of his rights, even though those damages may be found, as a factual matter, to be *20‘nominal’ when compared with later-occurring…