Citation Numbers： 264 A.D.2d 795, 695 N.Y.S.2d 398, 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9422
Filed Date： 9/27/1999
Status： Precedential
Modified Date： 11/1/2024
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Peter C. Patsalos, J.), dated August 6, 1998, which, inter alia, denied his motion to dismiss the complaint as barred by the Statute of Limitations.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiffs’ prior action against the appellant was dismissed for failure to effect proper service. The plaintiffs thereafter commenced the instant action under the provisions of CPLR former 306-b (b) (L 1992, ch 216, § 7). However, when the instant action was commenced, the three-year Statute of Limitations (see, CPLR 214) had run. Nevertheless, we reject the appellant’s contention that the instant action is barred by the Statute of Limitations. At the time the plaintiffs’ first action was commenced, CPLR former 306-b (b) provided, “If an action dismissed for failure to * * * effect proper service was timely commenced, the plaintiff may commence a new action, despite the expiration of the statute of limitations after the commencement of the original action, upon the same transaction or occurrence or a series of transactions or occurrences within one hundred and twenty days of such dismissal provided that service upon the defendant is effected within such one hundred and twenty day period”. The record establishes that the plaintiffs’ first action was timely commenced, that they commenced a new action based on the same occurrence within 120 days after the prior action was dismissed, and that they served the defendant within the 120-day period.
We also reject the appellant’s contention that the current version of CPLR 306-b, which applies to cases commenced on or after January 1, 1998 (L 1997, ch 476 § 2), and which