Gormong v. Cleveland Electric Co. of Georgia, Inc.

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Service of Process. The appellant, Herbert R. Gormong, was discharged by the appellee, Cleveland Electric Company, in 1976 for insubordination. Gormong sought arbitration of the discharge through his employee union but the arbitration was not pursued for reasons not made clear on the record. On July 22, 1985, over nine years after the discharge, Gormong filed suit in Fulton Superior Court claiming Cleveland breached an existing contract by failing to arbitrate his grievance. Gormong filed his suit pro se and sought to serve process upon Cleveland by mailing a copy of…