Williams v. Bragg

Smith, Chief Judge.

In this appeal, Joseph L. Williams challenges the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Shaun C. Bragg in Williams’s action stemming from a vehicular collision. The primary issue in this case is whether service, accomplished after the expiration of the statute of limitation, related back to the time of filing the complaint. The trial court concluded that it did not. We agree and affirm.

The collision in issue occurred on April 15, 1998. According to Williams’s attorney, before initially filing the complaint in the State Court of Chatham County on April 13,…