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FURY IMPORTS, INC., A NEW YORK CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, v. SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, A DELAWARE CORPORATION, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

PER CURIAM:

The application for rehearing directs our attention to Guard-Life Corp. v. S. Parker Hardware Manufacturing Corp., 50 N.Y.2d 183, 428 N.Y.S.2d 628, 406 N.E.2d 445 (1980), a decision apparently reported after the opinion in this case was prepared, and urges that the Guard-Life opinion establishes a rule of New York law that would require a different analysis from the one made in our opinion.

It is unnecessary to set forth all of the facts and issues in Guard-Life. The court there considered a claim for tortious interference with contract rights, but did not deal with the question of when the statute of limitations on such a claim commences. Although it implies, apparently contrary to indications in some of the New York cases cited in our opinion, that New York does not recognize a cause of action for interference with contractual relations not constituting inducement to breach, as distinguished from a cause of action for inducing contractual breach, it does so under a rubric that apparently embraces both concepts by adopting this definition of the tort from the Restatement (Second) of Torts:

intentionally interfering with a contract or a prospective contractual relation of another . . .

Restatement (Second) of Torts § 766 (1977).

If we apply this concept to the present case, we come to the same result. The cause of action for "intentionally interfering with a contract" (sometimes called tortious inducement to breach of contract in the prior New York cases, decided before the Second Restatement was adopted in 1977) accrues only when damage is suffered. A change of name alters neither the fragrance of the rose nor the time when a cause of action accrues for a tort whose name alone has been changed.

For these reasons, the application for rehearing is DENIED.

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FURY IMPORTS, INC. v. SHAKESPEARE CO
(Dec 3, 1980)