Legal Opinion
Romero v. Bachicha
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided June 28, 2001No. 21,351PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PICKARD, Judge.
{1} This case involves the statute of limitations, exercising due diligence in service, and amending complaints to correct party names. Eight days before the statute of limitations ran, Plaintiff filed a complaint for personal injuries. In his complaint, Plaintiff identified Defendant by the wrong first name. As a result, the process server refused to serve the complaint. Nonetheless, Plaintiff waited nearly eleven months to amend the complaint and did not serve Defendant with the corrected complaint until more than a year after the original complaint was filed.…
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- Wilcox v. Geneva Rock Corp.Utah Supreme Court · 1996
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