Moses v. T.N.T. Red Star Express

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that providing notice to defendants’ insurance carrier of an impending suit “does not excuse [plaintiff’s] failure even to attempt to effectuate actual service of the actual writ on the [defendants]”
• stating that “[t]aking no steps whatsoever to serve the writ of summons once having filed a praecipe for its issuance renders subsequent efforts to initiate the cause of action after the statute of limitations has run a ‘nullity.’”
• finding absence of a good-faith effort to serve defendant nullifies both the commencement of the action and the tolling of the statute of limitations
• “It is not the prerogative of an intermediate appellate court to enunciate new precepts of law or to expand existing legal doctrines. Such is a province reserved to the Supreme Court.”
• “It is not the prerogative of an intermediate appellate court to enunciate new precepts of law or to expand existing legal doctrines. Such is a province reserved to the Supreme Court.”
• “It was the [defendants] who were being sued not their insurance company.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).