Legal Opinion
Coles v. Reese
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 2, 2012No. A12A0196PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Blackwell, Judge.
The third time is not always the charm. In November 2008, Brian Coles sued Sparkle Junell Reese to recover damages for injuries that he sustained in an October 2007 automobile accident. But Coles never perfected service of that lawsuit and voluntarily dismissed it instead. He then filed a second lawsuit in April 2009, which he attempted to serve upon Reese under the auspices of the Nonresident Motorist Act, OCGA § 40-12-1, notwithstanding that he alleged in the second lawsuit that Reese was a resident of Georgia at the time of the accident. When Reese specifically appeared…
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- Bailey v. HallCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1991
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