Prosch v. Yale

OPINION

TALBOT SMITH, District Judge.

This is an action for personal injuries, a products liability case. Plaintiff Prosch has sued the manufacturer of an allegedly defective “chain fall” which figured in the injury.1

The question before us is the meaning of a statute purporting to govern the accrual of a cause of action for personal injuries. It reads in part as follows:

“600.5805 Injuries to person or property.

“No person may bring or maintain any action to recover damages for injuries to persons or property unless, after the claim first accrued to himself or to someone through whom he claims,…