When the commencement of an action is stayed by injunction or statutory prohibition the time of the continuance of the injunction or prohibition is not part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.
Wis. Stat. § 893.23
When action stayed
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 202 Wis. 2d 342 - Colby v. Columbia County (1996)
Most recently applied in David Schlemm v. Brendan Pizzala (March 2024)
1979 c. 323.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.