Costello v. Bothers

How courts have described this case

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• renewal action filed against owner of vehicle not permitted where original action was filed against driver of same vehicle
• “The renewal statute may not be used to suspend the running of the statute of limitation as to defendants different from those originally sued.”
• “In a renewal action, if the statute of limitation has not run, the plaintiff may add new parties and new claims to the refiled action; however, if the statute of limitation has expired, the plaintiff is limited to suing the same defendants under the same theories of recovery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).