Wagoner v. Saunier

OP ALA, Justice.

The dispositive question here is whether the district court’s midtrial party substitution order — by which a corporation [Saun-myer, Inc.] was made a party-defendant in lieu of its individually-sued president and principal stockholder [Robert M. Saunier]— is free from reversible error because it meets the minimum notice-and-fairness standards of the constitution. We answer in the affirmative.

Plaintiff’s intended adversary in the suit was the party which defectively renovated a fireplace chimney in his recently-acquired residence. In midtrial, that entity came to be identified…