Burmek v. Miller Brewing Co.

Analysis of the legislative history of the 1953 amendment of sec. 330.19 (5), Stats., indicates that said amendment was enacted to sanction situations comparable to those in such cases as Budke v. Holvick (1949), 255 Wis. 293, 38 N. W. (2d) 479, Trapino v. Trapino (1951), 260 Wis. 137, 50 N. W. (2d) 467, and Ullman v. Freye (1953), 263 Wis. 199, 56 N. W. (2d) 821, wherein this court held that the failure of technical observance of the two-year notice of injury provided in the statute was not fatal. In the Budke Case it was held that the notice of injury, although technically defective because…