The court properly applied CPLR 202 in dismissing the action as time-barred, since Tennessee has a one-year statute of limitations for legal malpractice actions. The tolling provision in the Tennessee statute was not available to plaintiffs, since they were not Tennessee residents (see Barbour v Erwin, 14 Lea [82 Tenn] 716, 719-720 [1885]; Cellura v Cellura,
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