Noreen v. PRICE DEVELOPMENT CO.

LANSING, Judge.

This appeal requires that we determine whether a partnership’s failure to properly file a certificate of assumed business name renders the partnership absent from the state for purposes of service of process and thereby tolls the statute of limitation on a claim against the partnership. We hold that it does not, and we therefore affirm the district court’s judgment dismissing the plaintiffs action because it is barred by the statute of limitation.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Cynthia Noreen was injured on January 28, 1997, when she slipped and fell on ice in the parking lot of…