Dunson v. Golden

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellants filed this action against the appellees on April 27, 1989, seeking to recover for injuries they had allegedly sustained in an automobile accident which had taken place on April 28, 1987. Service was not perfected on the appellees until October 24, 1989, some 30 months after the accident and some six months after the filing of the complaint. The appellees filed an answer on December 6, 1989, asserting, inter alia, that the claim was barred by the running of the statute of limitation. The trial court dismissed the case on that ground based on a…