Nghiem v. Rupom Sajib & Global Aviation Serv., Inc.

In this appeal from an order striking a petition in intervention, the issue is whether the two-year statute of limitations of the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act applies to the intervenor's claim for breach of the implied warranty of good and workmanlike repairs to existing tangible goods and property.1

Intervenor Daniel Nghiem was injured in a plane crash. Over two years later, Nghiem petitioned to intervene in a suit against a company that made repairs to the plane before the crash, Global Aviation Service, Inc. The trial court struck Nghiem's petition as untimely. In a…