McCray v. Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc.

In this personal injury case, appellant/plaintiff Lemen McCray appeals a final judgment of no liability on behalf of the defendants. He contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to amend to add an additional defendant just prior to trial. The proposed defendant was a third-party defendant until the third-party plaintiff voluntarily dismissed its complaint. The trial court determined that the proposed defendant had been dismissed, and that the statute of limitations had ran, barring McCray’s cause of action. We affirm, concluding that because the voluntary dismissal of the…