Legal Opinion
Saylors v. Riggsbee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 6, 1976PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BROCK, Justice.
This is an action for damages for wrongful death due to personal injuries resulting from an automobile accident. The issue is whether substituted service under the nonresident motorist statute, T.C.A. § 20-224, was timely.
The plaintiffs’ decedent, Aubrey Mann Link, was killed in an automobile accident on March 14,1969, while riding as a passenger in the automobile of Opal Leath Cline, deceased, whose administrator is the appel- lee here. The statute then in effect provided that the Secretary of State should be deemed the agent for acceptance of service of process on the…
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