Legal Opinion
Fifer v. Soretore-Dodds
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided June 16, 1997No. 49A05-9605-CV-202PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RUCKER, Judge.
Suffering injuries from an automobile accident Linda Fifer filed suit three days before the statute of limitations was due to expire. Discovering she had named the wrong party, Fifer amended her complaint naming Stephanie Sortore-Dodds as the proper party defendant. The amended complaint was filed after the statute of limitations had run. In response Sortore-Dodds filed a motion for summary judgment arguing that relation back of the amendment pursuant to Ind.Trial Rule 15(C) did not rescue Fifer’s cause of action. The trial court agreed and granted the motion. Fifer now…
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