This means O'Mara will not have to face a trial on the issue
because of a technicality.
If you are looking for an attorney who can squeeze through a loophole
after allegedly costing a client $600,000, you may want to call him.
O'Mara's firm also represented Putnam County Clerk of Courts Lewis
Coomer in several land acquisition deals, The Putnam Pit has
learned, as well as representing the city in cases arising from the denial
of public records to persons critical of Cookeville government.
"Basically," said Sam Harris, the appellant's lawyer, "the problem here
is Mr. Robert Roggen was president of a corporation, and the last day before
the statute of limitations ran he signed and filed a complaint on behalf
of the corporation. Because he couldn't find a local lawyer, he was forced
to do the only thing he could for the corporation, sign it himself. In
a previous case the court said any complaint filed on behalf of a corporation
must be signed by a lawyer."
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