Green v. Auerbach Chevrolet Corp.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

STEIN, J.

Prior to January 1, 1973, the two-year statute of limitations for personal-injury actions, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2, was tolled for minor plaintiffs until they attained the age of twenty-one. N.J.S.A. 2A:14-21. The Legislature’s enactment of Laws 1972, chapter 81 (chapter 81 or the age-of-majority statute), effective January 1, 1973, has generated twenty years of uncertainty over the question whether that enactment was intended to change from twenty-one years to eighteen years the age until which that statute of limitations is tolled. We recently…