Gray v. Reeves

In Gray v. Reeves (1977) 76 Cal.App.3d 567, the plaintiff claimed that a drug called prednisone which he had started to take in 1968 had caused a degeneration of his hip socket. Corrective surgery was performed in 1971. Suit was not filed until 1973. The court held that the statute of limitations had run as a matter of law because the cause of the injury had been explained to plaintiff no later than January 1971, when "he clearly understood the drug prednisone had probably caused the problem."