Jack Eckerd Drug Co. of Georgia, Inc. v. Covington

Banke, Presiding Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the defendant in a personal injury case from an order compelling responses to interrogatories *165served by the plaintiff. At issue is whether the discovery order was prohibited by Rule 5 of the Uniform State Court Rules, due to the fact that the plaintiff had not served the interrogatories within six months after the defendant filed its answer.

Decided June 1, 1987. Bryan F. Dorsey, for appellant. Julius Galler, David A. Swift, for appellee.

The complaint was filed on September 19, 1985, and the answer was filed on October 24, 1985. The…