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Thornton v. Roosevelt Hospital

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 20, 1977
59 A.D.2d 680 (N.Y. App. Div. 1977)

Opinion

October 20, 1977


Orders, Supreme Court, New York County, entered, respectively, April 27 and 28, 1977, unanimously modified, on the law, to strike those portions granting leave to replead causes of action sounding in strict liability, and otherwise affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. Special Term, granting motions to dismiss causes for wrongful death as time-barred, granted leave to plead over, as indicated, in the belief that the action on the new cause would be timely. This case is based on injection of a substance into the decedent, allegedly resulting in the onset of cancer. The time of invasion of the decedent's body, and not any later time, began the period to be measured by the Statute of Limitation, and any such cause would also be time-barred. (See Weinstein v General Motors Corp., 51 A.D.2d 335; Schwartz v Heyden Newport Chem. Corp., 12 N.Y.2d 212; Schmidt v Merchants Desp. Transp. Co., 270 N.Y. 287.

Concur — Murphy, P.J., Birns, Markewich and Lynch, JJ.


Summaries of

Thornton v. Roosevelt Hospital

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 20, 1977
59 A.D.2d 680 (N.Y. App. Div. 1977)
Case details for

Thornton v. Roosevelt Hospital

Case Details

Full title:JOCK THORNTON, as Executor of SHARON R. THORNTON, Deceased, et al.…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Oct 20, 1977

Citations

59 A.D.2d 680 (N.Y. App. Div. 1977)

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