Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1999

Lane v. City of New York

Lane v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 15, 1999
259 A.D.2d 596; 686 N.Y.S.2d 782; 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2483
Lane v. City of New York

Opinion of the Court

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Taylor, J.), dated April 28, 1998, as denied that branch of their motion which was to amend the complaint to add a cause of action to recover damages for wrongful death.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

Since the Statute of Limitations on a wrongful death cause of action had expired (see, EPTL 5-4.1 [1]), the Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the plaintiffs’ motion which was to amend the complaint to assert such a cause of action. Bracken, J. P., Thompson, Goldstein and McGinity, JJ., concur.

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