VICTORSON v. BOCK LAUNDRY


37 N.Y.2d 395 (1975)

Livia Victorson et al., Respondents, v. Bock Laundry Machine Company, Appellant, and Stanley S. Kaplan, Doing Business as Progressive Coin Meter Co., Respondent, et al., Defendant. Gwendolyn Brown, an Infant, by Her Mother and Natural Guardian, Ann Brown, et al., Respondents, v. 1580 St. John's Place, Inc. et al., Defendants, Bock Laundry Machine Co., Inc., Appellant-Respondent and H. Greenwald, Inc., Appellant. Alberto Rivera, Sr. et al., Respondents, v. Berkeley Super Wash, Inc. et al., Defendants, and Bock Laundry Machine Co., Defendant-Appellant and Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 2, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Sentner, Jr. for appellant in the first above-entitled action.

Herbert L. Fine for Livia Victorson and another, respondents in the first above-entitled action.

Leo Rothbard and Benjamin E. Gelerman for Stanley Kaplan, respondent in the first above-entitled action.

Joseph D. Ahearn and Daniel J. Coughlin for H. Greenwald, Inc., appellant in the second above-entitled action.

Herbert Dicker for Bock Laundry Machine Co., Inc., appellant-respondent in the second above-entitled action.

Jerome Cooper for respondents in the second above-entitled action.

Sidney A. Schwartz and Irwin H. Haut for defendant-appellant and third-party defendant-appellant in the third above-entitled action.

Martin Levine and Joseph Friedberg for respondents in the third above-entitled action.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, WACHTLER and COOKE concur with Judge JONES; Judge FUCHSBERG concurs in a separate opinion.


JONES, J.

These three cases arise out of claims asserted against the manufacturer of allegedly defective products by remote users; the theory of liability is that which we have called strict products liability (Codling v Paglia, 32 N.Y.2d 330). We now hold that the period of limitation with respect to these claims begins to run at the date of injury and that the duration...

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