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CHANCE v. PLANTERS &c. COOPERATIVE

21951.

219 Ga. 1 (1963)

131 S.E.2d 541

CHANCE v. PLANTERS RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 9, 1963.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold W. Hollingsworth, for plaintiff in error.

W. Colbert Hawkins, contra.

QUILLIAN, Justice.

Code § 3-808 provides: "If a plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or shall discontinue or dismiss his case, and shall recommence within six months, such renewed case shall stand upon the same footing, as to limitation, with the original case..." Since this is a remedial statute and to be construed liberally, Cox v. Berry, 13 Ga. 306, Rountree v. Key, 71 Ga. 214, this court has held that...

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