JOHNSON v. TAYLOR RENTAL CENTER, INC.

No. 84-650.

458 So.2d 845 (1984)

Frank D. JOHNSON and Betty J. Johnson, Appellants, v. TAYLOR RENTAL CENTER, INC., a Foreign Corporation; Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, a Foreign Corporation; a-1 Sales and Rental Enterprises, Inc., a Florida Corporation; and Louisville Ladder, a Division of Emerson Electric Company, a Foreign Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

November 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael W. Ross of Goodheart & Ross, P.A., Bradenton, for appellants.

William M. Schneikart of Jacobs, Robbins, Burns, Cole & Shasteen, P.A., St. Petersburg, for appellee A-1 Sales and Rental Enterprises, Inc.


GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

This appeal involves the relation back of amended pleadings which seek to add a new party defendant subsequent to the running of the statute of limitations.

On September 20, 1982, Frank Johnson, joined by his wife, filed a negligence action alleging that he was injured on October 19, 1978, when he fell from a defective ladder rented from Taylor Rental Center, Inc. Attached to the complaint was a copy of a receipt for the ladder...

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