Legal Opinion
Austin v. Greenberg Farrow Architects
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided October 9, 1991No. A91A0942PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cooper,. Judge.
On July 2, 1987, Nicky Austin was injured when a roof collapsed on a construction project where he was working. On June 29, 1989, three days before the expiration of the statute of limitation, appellants, Nicky Austin and his wife, filed a professional malpractice complaint against appellees, an engineering firm and an architectural firm, seeking to recover for personal injuries and loss of consortium. Appellants did not file with their complaint, or 45 days thereafter, an affidavit of an expert as required by OCGA § 9-11-9.1. Appellees raised this defect in their first…
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