Thompson v. Wyeth Laboratories Division of American Home Products Corp.

Lippincott, 2d, J.,

Plaintiff asks leave to amend twice his original complaint in trespass long after the statute of limitations has run. The amendments are opposed on the ground that they *361constitute new causes or theories of actions to the prejudice of defendants.

Plaintiff’s complaint states that he contracted poliomyelitis after purchasing and consuming Sabin oral polio vaccine, which he pleads “[defendants] negligently manufactured, produced, tested, packaged and sold . . The first proposed amendment seeks to add to this general allegation of negligence a statement that “. . . in packaging,…