Legal Opinion
Transportation Insurance v. El Chico Restaurants, Inc.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided December 2, 1999No. S99G0437PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hunstein, Justice.
We granted certiorari from the Court of Appeals’ opinion in El Chico Restaurants v. Transp. Ins. Co., 235 Ga. App. 427 (509 SE2d 681) (1998) to consider whether a foreign corporation’s action is not *775void, and thus subject to amendment, even if the corporation is not authorized to maintain an action in this State because it has not obtained a certificate of authority to transact business here pursuant to OCGA § 14-2-1502 (a). See El Chico Restaurants, supra at (2). Based on the language of OCGA § 14-2-1502 (a) and its legislative history, we conclude that a foreign…
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