Martin v. Putnam County Blood Bank, Inc.

This cause is before us on appeal from an order of the lower court granting Appellee’s motion to dismiss Appellant’s complaint with prejudice. We reverse and remand.

The present action was filed in the Ala-chua County Circuit Court to preserve a similar lawsuit previously dismissed for lack of prosecution in the circuit court for Putnam County.1 Appellee filed a motion to dismiss, asserting that the suit was improper and duplicitous, barred by the statute of limitations, and filed in an improper venue. The lower court granted Appellee’s motion and dismissed the suit with prejudice. Although…