Ayers v. Gentry

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

Defendants have filed two motions to quash process served upon them pursuant to Rule 12(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

It is asserted in the first motion, which was filed April 5, 1963, that the attempted service of process under T.C.A. Secs. 20-224, 20-225 and 20-226 was invalid because the accident out of which the action arose occurred February 3, 1962 and the suit was not filed until March 8, 1963, or more than one year after the accident. Section 20-224 provides that the agency of the secretary of state to accept service of process shall continue…