Is a plaintiff entitled to a cause of action at the time of injury?

On principle, there having been no prior relationship between the parties in strict products liability cases, the cause of action if any there be, should accrue at the time the injury is sustained. To hold that it somehow came into being prior thereto would defy both logic and experience. '(I)t is all but unthinkable that a person should be time-barred from prosecuting a cause of action before he ever had one' (Mendel v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., supra, 25 N.Y.2d p. 346,

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