Wis. Stat. » CHAPTER 893 — LIMITATIONS OF COMMENCEMENT OF ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS; PROCEDURE FOR CLAIMS AGAINST GOVERNMENTAL UNITS
Wisconsin Statutes

Wis. Stat. § 893.37 (2026)

Survey

✓ current as of July 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section WI-LEGdocs.legis.wisconsin.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar
893.37893.37 Survey. No action may be brought against an engineer or any professional land surveyor, as defined in s. 443.01 (7m), to recover damages for negligence, errors, or omission in the making of any survey nor for contribution or indemnity related to such negligence, errors, or omissions more than 6 years after the completion of a survey.
893.37 HistoryHistory: 1979 c. 323 s. 3; Stats. 1979 s. 893.36; 1979 c. 355 s. 228; Stats. 1979 s. 893.37; 2013 a. 358.
893.37 AnnotationThe discovery rule applies to statutes of limitations that limit the time to sue from the time when the action “accrues,” being the time of discovery. The discovery rule does not apply to this section because it is a statute of repose, a statute that specifies the time of accrual—in this statute the time when the injury occurred—and limits the time suit can be brought from that specified date. Tomczak v. Bailey, 218 Wis. 2d 245, 578 N.W.2d 166 (1998), 95-2733.
Down
Up
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1967–2024 · leading case: Tomczak v. Bailey, 578 N.W.2d 166 (Wis. 1998).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Tomczak v. Bailey, 578 N.W.2d 166 (Wis. 1998). · cites it 178× “Tomczak and Mary Ann Tomczak (the Tomczaks), brought their action after the six-year limitation period set forth in Wis. Stat. § 893.37 (1993-94) [1] had expired.”
Tomczak v. Bailey, 557 N.W.2d 840 (Wis. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 23× “and Mary Ann Tomczak as time barred under § 893.37, Stats. The Tomczaks' action seeks damages resulting from an alleged erroneous survey performed by Bailey in 1988.”
Wenke Ex Rel. Laufenberg v. Gehl Co., 2004 WI 103 (Wis. 2004). · cites it 2× “55 , other examples of statutes of repose in chapter 893 include Wis. Stat. §§ 893.37 (six-year limitation on actions against persons who conduct land surveys); 893.”
Klinger v. Kightly, 791 P.2d 868 (Utah 1990). · cites it 2× “1990) (ten years after the date survey is complete); Wash. Rev. Code § 4.”
Kain v. Bluemound East Indus. Park, Inc., 2001 WI App 230 (Wis. Ct. App. 2001). · cites it 2× “In Tomczak , the statute, Wis. Stat. § 893.37 , barred the bringing of an action against an engineer or land surveyor "more than 6 years after the completion of a survey.”
Seybold v. Milwaukee Cnty. Sheriff, 276 F. Supp. 484 (E.D. Wis. 1967). “§ 2241(c) (5) authorizes issuance of a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum to secure the presence of a witness and does not authorize issuance of a writ to bring a prisoner before the court for argument of pre-trial motions.”
James Eddings v. The Est. of Donna M. Young (Wis. Ct. App. 2024). · cites it 14× “§§ 893.37 and 893.89(2), the Estate contends it is the legislature’s “historical practice” to specifically reference a bar on contribution and indemnification claims in statutes of repose when it wants to bar such claims.”
Est. of Makos Ex Rel. Makos v. Wisconsin Masons Health Care Fund, 564 N.W.2d 662 (Wis. 1997). · cites it 4× “See Wis. Stat. §§ 893.37 , 893.59, 893.66(1).”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.