Cobb v. Stephens (1988)

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green Kenneth B. Cameron v. Jmp Pizza, Inc. (2026)

Rule Authority · Ga. Ct. App.

Accord Fontaine v. Home Depot, 250 Ga. App. 123, 124 (1) ( 550 SE2d 691 ) (2001) (“OCGA § 9-11-15(c) applies to motions to add a party as well as to substitute a party.”); Cobb v. Stephens, 186 Ga. App. 648, 649 ( 368 SE2d 341 ) (1988) (“[The] broad interpretation of the ambit of OCGA § 9-11-15(c) as authority to add, as well as to change, parties has been consistently followed.” (emphases omitted)).

green Keyla Connie v. Robert P. Garnett (2021)

Rule Authority · Ga. Ct. App.

Under OCGA § 9-11-15 (c), an amended complaint adding a new party after the running of the statute of limitation may relate back to the date of the original complaint if the following three elements are satisfied: (1) That the amendment adding the new defendant arise out of the same facts as the original complaint; (2) That the new defendant had sufficient notice of the action; and, (3) That the new defendant knew or should have known that, but for a mistake concerning his i…

green HD Supply, Inc. v. Garger (2009)

Rule Authority · Ga. Ct. App.

(Emphasis supplied.) See Fontaine v. Home Depot, 250 Ga. App. 123, 124 (1) ( 550 SE2d 691 ) (2001); Cobb v. Stephens, 186 Ga. App. 648, 649 ( 368 SE2d 341 ) (1988). 6 And when a defendant is added under OCGA § 9-11-15 (c), the defendant is treated as if it were a *755 party to the original action from its inception.

green Fontaine v. Home Depot, Inc. (2001)

Rule Authority · Ga. Ct. App.

Cobb v. Stephens, 186 Ga. App. 648, 649 ( 368 SE2d 341 ) (1988).

green Harding v. Godwin (1999)

Rule Authority · Ga. Ct. App.

Cobb v. Stephens, 186 Ga. App. 648, 649-650 ( 368 SE2d 341 ) (1988) (citing A. H.

green Hall v. Scott USA, Ltd. (1990)

Rule Authority · Ga. Ct. App.

However, OCGA § 9-11-15 has not been restricted to instances in which parties are substituted, but OCGA § 9-11-15 (c) has been broadly interpreted “to sanction relation back of amendments which add or drop parties. . . .” Cobb v. Stephens, 186 Ga. App. 648, 649 ( 368 SE2d 341 ) (1988).

green Robinson v. Piggly Wiggly of Calhoun, Inc. (1989)

Rule Authority · Ga. Ct. App.

Clearly, the import of this holding is that the addition of parties who have an involvement in the same set of facts which gave rise to the original complaint and who are also not ‘altogether strangers to the original suit, insofar as notice and knowledge thereof (are concerned),’ would be authorized under OCGA § 9-11-15 (c).” (Emphasis omitted.) Cobb v. Stephens, 186 Ga. App. 648, 648-649 ( 368 SE2d 341 ) (1988).

green Harper v. Mayor &C. of Savannah (1989)

Rule Authority · Ga. Ct. App.

Cobb v. Stephens, 186 Ga. App. 648, 649 ( 368 SE2d 341 ) (1988).

green Trillium Nursing Home, Inc. v. Thebaut (1988)

Rule Authority · Ga. Ct. App.

Cobb v. Stephens, 186 Ga. App. 648, 649 ( 368 SE2d 341 ) (1988).

green VASTHY GONZALEZ v. LYNNE JONES (2023)

Cited · Ga. Ct. App. · signal: see · 2 citations in this opinion

See HD Supply, Inc. v. Garger, 299 Ga. App. 751, 754 (1) ( 683 SE2d 671 ) (2009) (“Although OCGA § 9-11-15 (c) refers to ‘an amendment changing the party,’ the ambit of the relation back provision has been construed to include cases where, as here, the plaintiff adds rather than substitutes a new party defendant.”), citing Fontaine v. Home Depot, 250 Ga. App. 123, 124 (1) ( 550 SE2d 691 ) (2001) (“OCGA § 9-11-15 (c) applies to motions to add a party as well as to substitute …