633 N.Y.S.2d 1012 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1995
—In an action to recover damages, inter alia, for personal injuries and wrongful death, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dye, J.), dated December 19, 1994, which denied his motion to dismiss the complaint as barred by the applicable Statute of Limitations.
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.
This action, commenced more than three years after the causes of action accrued, should have been dismissed as time barred. Because statutory authorization existed for obtaining jurisdiction over the defendant by means other than personal delivery of the summons within this State, the tolling provi
