Meyers v. Interwest Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that summons may be amended even after statute of limitations has expired, and the date of the amended summons relates back to the date of the initial summons
• holding that summons may be amended even after statute of limitations has expired, and the date of the amended summons relates back to the date of the initial summons
• noting that “amendments are allowed to complaints and process, even though the amendment relates back to the time of original filing and even though, but for the right to amend, the limitation period would have run”
• “It is axiomatic that a court acquires power to adjudicate by proper service of process which imparts notice that the defendant is being sued.... In that manner a court acquires jurisdiction to enter a judgment against a party.”
• “It is axiomatic that a court acquires power to adjudicate by proper service of process which imparts notice that the defendant is being sued and must appear and defend or suffer a default judgment.” (quotation simplified) (emphasis added)

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