Forgay v. Tucker

Deen, Judge.

This action was filed January 7, 1971, and the only question that need concern us here is whether it is barred by the statute of limitation. We must agree with the trial court that this is the case.

Insofar as they bear on the two-year statute of limitation in personal injury cases, the earlier Georgia cases are well summed up in Cheney v. Syntex Laboratories, Inc., 277 FSupp. 386, decided in 1967. A *499drug manufacturer was sued on the theory that side effects produced a pulmonary embolism. Judge Newell Edenfield, dismissing the case, held that although the appearance of the embolism…