Atkinson v. Be-Mac Transport, Inc.

GUNN, Presiding Judge.

This automobile accident damage suit action has alternately simmered, boiled and cooled in the legal caldron for over eleven years. And this appeal, unfortunately, does not bring this jaded bit of litigation to its much needed rest. Plaintiff-appellant De-lois Atkinson filed suit against defendants-respondents Be-Mac Transport, Inc. and Union Electric Company for injuries suffered in an automobile accident on September 23, 1968. The trial court granted Be-Mac’s motion to dismiss for plaintiff’s failure to exercise due diligence in obtaining service of process thereby…