Legal Opinion
Crawford v. Kingston
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided June 20, 2012No. A12A0742PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, Judge.
On appeal from the trial court’s dismissal of her renewed personal injury action against Scott Kingston, Christine Crawford argues that because an intervening dismissal in federal court was involuntary and could not operate as an adjudication on the merits under *314OCGA § 9-11-41 (a) (3), and because the federal complaint was never served on Kingston, she had the right to renew her action under OCGA § 9-2-61. We agree and reverse.
The record shows that Crawford filed her first complaint concerning an August 2006 motor vehicle accident in Cherokee County State Court. Crawford…
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