Wenke Ex Rel. Laufenberg v. Gehl Co.

¶ 1. This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals.1 The issue presented is whether Landis v. Physicians Insurance Co., 2001 WI 86, 245 Wis. 2d 1, 628 N.W.2d 893, functionally overrules that part of the holding in Leverence v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty, 158 Wis. 2d 64, 462 N.W.2d 218 (Ct. App. 1990), that distinguishes statutes of limitation from statutes of repose in the application of Wisconsin's "borrowing statute," Wis. *227Stat. § 893.07.2 This question requires us to consider whether § 893.07 applies equally to foreign statutes of limitation and foreign statutes…