Wis. Stat. § 893.15

Effect of an action in a non-Wisconsin forum on a Wisconsin cause of action

Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Turner v. Taylor (2003)

Most recently applied in Artis v. District of Columbia (January 2018)

1979 c. 323.

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(1) In this section “a nonWisconsin forum” means all courts, state and federal, in states other than this state and federal courts in this state.

(2) In a non-Wisconsin forum, the time of commencement or final disposition of an action is determined by the local law of the forum.

(3) A Wisconsin law limiting the time for commencement of an action on a Wisconsin cause of action is tolled from the period of commencement of the action in a non-Wisconsin forum until the time of its final disposition in that forum.

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply to an action commenced on a Wisconsin cause of action in a non-Wisconsin forum after the time when the action is barred by a law of the forum limiting the time for commencement of an action.

(5) If an action is commenced in a non-Wisconsin forum on a Wisconsin cause of action after the time when the Wisconsin period of limitation has expired but before the foreign period of limitation has expired, the action in the non-Wisconsin forum has no effect on the Wisconsin period of limitation.

Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.