Whicker v. Strong

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a six-week delay in service caused in part by counsel taking three-weeks leave to attend to his ill spouse, though “undoubtedly” negligent, did not negate good faith because he still showed intent to issue a summons in due course
• declining to find bad faith service delay where plaintiff's attorney was attempting to discern the proper service agent, his wife fell ill for several weeks, and summons was misfiled
• explaining a six-week delay was “perilously near to barring [the] client’s right of action”
• “A mere negligent delay, if of sufficient length of time, may have the effect of indicating a lack of good faith in having the process issued.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).