Tanfield Engineering System, Inc. v. Thornton

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Peggy Thornton filed this wrongful death action on August 14, 2007, against Woodall Electric Company, Inc. (her deceased husband’s employer), as well as several fictitious defendants.1 Thornton later added Defendants Tanfield Group, PLC, Tanfield Engineering Systems, Inc. (“Tanfield Engineering”), and Bidgood Enterprises, Inc.2 in her First Amended Complaint, filed on July 16, 2009, which included additional claims of defective design against the newly added defendants.

¶ 2. After having served Tanfield Group, Thornton had an alias summons issued for…