Trimble v. Engelking

How courts have described this case

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• addressing an argument that an action against a decedent is a nullity because dead persons are not legal entities capable of being sued
• treating legal-nullity rule as remnant of antiquated strict-pleading requirements and refusing to adopt it
• “We thus decline to adopt the nullity rule in Idaho and hold that, where a party has been named improperly, amendment and relation back should be allowed where the requirements of I.R.C.P. 15(c) are met.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).