Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
An action to recover damages under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (hereinafter FELA) must be commenced "within three years from the day the cause of action accrued" (45 USC § 56). A FELA claim accrues when a reasonable person knows, or in the exercise of due diligence should have known, of both the injury and the cause of that injury (see Lechowicz v Consolidated Rail Corp.,
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