Holley v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Ava Holley, plaintiff, appeals from the grant of a motion to dismiss in favor of the defendants, St. Paul Fire Marine Insurance Co. (St. Paul) and Service Master Industries, Inc. (Service Master). We reverse and remand.

This litigation commenced with Holley's action filed on July 7, 1977 in which she claimed damages for personal injuries suffered in a fall which occurred on the premises of the Abernathy Memorial Hospital in Flomaton on August 10, 1976. Her original complaint named that hospital as defendant. That complaint was amended twice. In February 1980 the first amendment to the…