Tindol v. Boston Housing Authority

How courts have described this case

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• contrasting the two types of statutes, the court stated that a statute of repose “is of an entirely different legal genre”
• if person is minor when cause of action first accrues, action may be brought within time fixed, in appropriate state statute of limitation, from the time minor reaches legal age
• relation back doctrine would not permit adding of defendants in suit by minor after time period under G.L.c. 260, §2B, a statute of repose, had passed
• “The injury need not have occurred, much less have been discovered”
• Massachusetts Rule 15 (c), based on the corresponding federal rule providing for relation back of amended pleadings, does not permit the addition of a defendant after the period of the statute of repose regarding actions arising from improvements to real property had expired.
• denying tolling for child plaintiff’s minority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).