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KRIS SMITH, ETC., ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. LONG BEACH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, ETC., ET AL., RESPONDENTS.

DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is modified, on the law, by deleting the provisions thereof granting those branches of the motion which were to dismiss the first through fifth causes of action, and substituting therefor provisions denying those branches of the motion; as so modified, the order is affirmed, with costs to the plaintiffs.

The defendants concede that in light of the Court of Appeals decision in Henry v. City of New York ( 94 N.Y.2d 275), the infant plaintiff's first through fifth causes of action were not time-barred and must be reinstated. However, those branches of the defendants' motion which were to dismiss the causes of action asserted on behalf of the infant plaintiff's parents were properly granted. The infancy toll is personal to the infant and does not extend to the parents' derivative claims (see, Dong T. Chen v. New York City Health Hosps. Corp., 270 A.D.2d 445; Blackburn v. Three Vil. Cent. School Dist., 270 A.D.2d 298; Myrick v. County of Suffolk, 139 A.D.2d 633). Any delay in compliance with General Municipal Law § 50-h did not toll the Statute of Limitations (see, Mignott v. New York City Health Hosps. Corp., 250 A.D.2d 165).

We agree with the defendants that the infant plaintiff's twelfth cause of action should be dimissed on the alternative ground that it failed to state a cause of action (see, Dubroff v. Evergreen Bank, 265 A.D.2d 644).

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SMITH v. LONG BEACH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
(Oct 30, 2000)