Robare v. Fortune Brands, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtMugglin, J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Ryan, J.), entered January 30, 2006 in Clinton County, which granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
The dispositive issue on this appeal is whether the doctrine of equitable estoppel prevents defendants from asserting the three-year statute of limitations as a defense to plaintiffs numerous causes of action which, in various forms, assert liability for plaintiff having contracted cancer of the throat and tongue as a *1046result of smoking defendants’ cigarettes from 1961—when he was about 10 years of age—to 1991, when he…
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