McGuinness v Armstrong Patents

JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date31 July 1980
Date31 July 1980
Docket Number[1975 No. 2057 P.]
CourtHigh Court
(H.C.)
McGuinness
and
Armstrong Patents

Negligence -Added defendant - Computation of limitation period - Service of summons - Rules of the Superior Courts, 1962 (S.I. No. 72), Or. 15, r.13 - Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38), s. 11 -Statute of Limitations, 1957 (No. 6), s. 11.

The plaintiff suffered personal injuries on the 21st June, 1972, when a motor car, in which she was a passenger, crashed after one of its wheels became detached from the vehicle. The plaintiff issued and served on two defendants a summons in which she claimed damages from them and alleged that her injuries had been caused by their negligence. The plaintiff was then informed that the accident had been caused by the failure of a part of the car which had been manufactured by the third defendant. a company registered outside the jurisdiction. Having obtained leave to add the third defendant as a party. the plaintiff on the 23rd June. 1975. issued a concurrent summons in which she claimed damages from the third defendant and alleged that her injuries had been caused by the negligence of the third defendant. Notice of the issue of the concurrent summons was not served on the third defendant until after the 23rd June, 1975. In its defence the third defendant pleaded that the plaintiff's action against the third defendant was statute barred. Section 11, sub-s. 2 (b), of the Statute of Limitations, 1957 states that the plaintiff's action against the third defendant should not be brought "after the expiration of three years from the date on which the cause of action accrued." The issue based on the Statute of 1957 and raised in the defence of the third defendant was tried in the High Court by a judge as a separate issue. The 21st and 22nd June, 1975, were dies non judiciariiand, at the trial of the issue, the third defendant conceded that the plaintiff's claim against the third defendant would not be statute barred if (a) the claim had not become...

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