Smith v. New York Central Rd.

The sole question for determination in both of these controversies is whether the amendment of Section 11224, reducing the period within which personal injury suits may be brought from four years to two years, will apply to causes of action existing at the time of the effective date of the enactment. Neither of the controversies was a pending suit at the time of such effective date, and both controversies were existing causes of action on that date. The same legal questions therefore apply to both, and will therefore be considered and decided together.

The case concerns the statute of…