Legal Opinion
Dewey A. Hunt, Sr., Individually and as Personal Representative of Altha H. Hunt, Deceased v. Broce Construction, Inc., a Domestic Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 9, 1982No. 79-2299PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
Dewey A. Hunt, Sr. appeals the trial court’s dismissal, as barred by Oklahoma’s statute of limitations, of his diversity action brought to recover for personal injuries Hunt and his deceased wife suffered because of a highway construction company’s alleged negligence. Because of a confusion of names, Hunt allowed more than two years to elapse between the date of the accident and the dates he amended his complaint to correctly name the defendant and served the proper representative of that defendant.
Hunt filed his complaint in an Oklahoma federal district court on August…
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