Nelson v. Glenwood Hills Hospitals, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a summons “constitutes merely a notice to defendant that an action has been commenced and, if no defense is offered or made, a default judgment will be taken against him”
• state officials erroneously informed counsel that proper defendant had merged with corporation named in original pleadings
• two corporations had common officer and insurer; through service on the officer, intended defendant received notice of pending action before statute of limitations ran
• two corporations with some of same officers and directors
• plaintiff sued corporation that previously operated hospital

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).