Legal Opinion
Quinn v. Keinicke
Superior Court of Delaware
Decided December 3, 1996No. C.A. 95C-10-095-WTQPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUILLEN, Judge.
The case comes before the Court on defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for failure to effect service within 120 days of filing the complaint, as required by Superior Court Civil Rule 4(j). Interwoven with this Motion are two additional issues. The first is whether the defendant’s attempted special appearance, a practice long-discarded in Delaware, constituted a general appearance. The second, an issue of first impression in this State, concerns the relationship between Delaware’s statute for service of process on nonresident operators of motor vehicles, 10 Del.C. § 3112 (“motor…
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