Morrison v. Franklin

This appeal presents two procedural issues and one substantive issue. The procedural issues: 1) whether the trial court erred in striking the plaintiffs' amendment to their complaint on the ground that the amendment was untimely filed, and 2) whether the appeal is due to be dismissed on the ground that the notice of appeal was untimely filed. The substantive issue: whether the trial court erred in granting the defendant's motion to strike the plaintiffs' amended complaint, thereby dismissing the plaintiffs' action against the defendant.1

Ernest Morrison and Keats Morrison hired the defendant,…