Joe Edney v. Carlos Williams

KING, JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Officer Joe Edney appeals from the trial court's holding that Carlos Williams had established good cause for his failure to serve process within the statutory time period. We find that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to consider in its analysis of good cause Williams's four-and-a-half-year delay in pursuing this action. Therefore, we reverse the trial court's decision and remand this case to the trial court to include the length of delay in its analysis of good cause.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. On or about February 8, 2008, while…