Ralph E. Vorhees, to His Own Use and to the Use of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Nancy Vorhees, His Wife v. Fischer & Krecke

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• finding that a case should not be dismissed based on improper service and that plaintiffs should be given a “reasonable opportunity to attempt to effect valid service of process on the defendant”
• ”[T]he statute of limitations had run on the plaintiffs’ various causes of action ... the action should not have been dismissed until the plaintiffs were given a reasonable opportunity to attempt to effect valid service of process on the defendant.”
• discussing the distinction between quashing service of process and dismissal
• “If the first service of process is ineffective, a motion to dismiss should not be granted, but rather the [c]ourt should treat the motion . . . as one to quash the service of process and the case should be retained on the docket pending effective service.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).