Artis v. Gaither

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

We granted an application by Raymond Artis and Josephine Freeman, the appellants, to bring an interlocutory appeal from an or der granting summary judgment to the Motors Insurance Company (“MIC”), Freeman’s uninsured motorist insurance carrier, because there was no service of process upon MIC within the period of the statute of limitation. See Vaughn v. Collum, 236 Ga. 582 (224 SE2d 416).

“Because a grant of summary judgment is subject to direct ap peal [compare Williams v. Thomas, 183 Ga. App. 51 (1) (357 SE2 872); and Peeples v. City of Atlanta, 189 Ga. App. 888 (1)…