The respondent was injured on 2 January 2004 when she fell from a cable car operated by the appellant close corporation. She instituted a delictual claim for damages. The appellant raised a special plea that the claim had prescribed. A summons was issued and served on 14 December 2006 at the appellant’s registered office, which was also the premises where the cable car business had previously operated but had since closed. The summons was served on an employee of a restaurant operating on the premises, not on an employee of the appellant. The appellant contended that service was invalid and therefore prescription was not interrupted.