Court Opinion

ID: 9859946
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 23:00:48.392685+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:10:04.289225
License: Public Domain

Supplemental Opinion on Rehearing In his petition for rehearing defendant’s attorney states that we overlooked the fact that the Russo case cited in the opinion is no longer the law in the State of New York. The Russo case was decided in 1932 when the pertinent statutory provisions in New York were similar to those now pertaining in Illinois. In 1945 the Legislature in New York revised the General Municipal Law in that state and included provisions with reference to filing notice of a tort claim when the claimant was an infant. Thus, in New York the Legislature denied the court the power to permit late filing of such claims by an infant, and the New York Court of Appeals has said that “the Legislature had the undoubted right so to do.” Martin v. School Board of Union Free Dist. No. 28, 301 N. Y. 233, 93 N.E.2d 655, 657. In Illinois the General Assembly has not seen fit to limit the time for infants to file such claims or commence actions thereon. Accordingly the Russo decision and the reasons there expressed are applicable to the instant case. Petition for rehearing is denied. DOVE, J., concurs.