Old Hickory Engineering & Machine Company

REID, J. This case presents for review the decision of the Court of Appeals reversing the trial court's dismissal of the complaint. The Court of Appeals held that the complaint, which was signed only by the non-lawyer president of the corporate plaintiff, was ""not void"" and that the subsequent appearance of a lawyer on behalf of the plaintiff ""corrected the defect"" in the pleading. That court ordered that the suit be allowed to proceed to trial even though the complaint was filed on the last day permitted by the savings statute, Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-1-105 (Supp. 1995). The decision by the Court of Appeals is reversed.