of action refers to the knowledge and diligence of the injured person or to the knowledge and diligence of a legal representative who has accepted responsibility for the injur 5 A.2d 167, 169 (1950) (permitting an action for payments under a contract ten years after alleged incompetence began, where plaintiff had not recovered from disability at the time the complaint was filed); Unkert v. Gen. Motors Corp., 301 N.J.Super. 583, 694 A.2d 306, 311 (1997) (concluding that appointment of guardian for person rendered incompetent in accident does not end period of incompetence for that individual, and that the limitations period therefore does not begin to run upon appointment of a guardian); Henry ex rel. Henry v. City of New York, 94 N.Y.2d 275, 702 N.Y.S.2d 580, 724 N.E.2d 372, 373 (1999) (<HOLDING>); Costello v. N. Shore Univ. Hosp. Ctr. for
holding that parents were not entitled to use infancy tolling provisions and that the statute of limitations barred their claims holding that appointment of guardian over incompetent adult does not remove legal disability so as to halt tolling and commence running of statute of limitations holding that because purpose of tolling statute is to remedy problem of locating a nonresident defendant before expiration of statute of limitations tolling statute does not apply to adverse possession action because of statutory scheme allowing for service by publication on parties outside state in such actions holding that washingtons statute tolls the statute of limitations for a legally incompetent person notwithstanding the appointment of a guardian this is so because the right to the tolling statute vests in the incompetent person not in the guardian from this premise it follows that the guardians subsequent actions on the incompetent persons behalf should have no additional effect upon the statute of limitations unless they result in res judicata holding that new yorks statute tolling statute of limitations during a period when a person is under a disability because of infancy is not terminated by acts of guardian or legal representative in taking steps to pursue claims on infants behalf