FINKELSTEIN v. LOVELL

83-21.

449 So.2d 1240 (1984)

Marcia FINKELSTEIN v. Sharon R. LOVELL.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

April 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Clifford Fulford of Fulford, Pope, Natter, Donovan & Mullins, Birmingham, for appellant.

Robert E. Cooper of Rives & Peterson, Birmingham, for appellee.


MADDOX, Justice.

The issue on appeal here is whether a complaint which is filed on the day the statute of limitations would run, but which contains the notation "NO SERVICE TO BE MADE AT THIS TIME," is sufficient to commence a civil action, if it is not in fact served that day.

Marcia Finkelstein, plaintiff/appellant, was injured in an automobile accident which occurred on May 12, 1981, in Homewood, Alabama. The other automobile involved in the accident was...

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