Pamlico Properties IV v. SEG Anstalt Co.

PHILLIPS, Judge.

Plaintiffs action is for damages allegedly caused by the several defendants negligently permitting a fire to spread onto its land on 5 April 1981. The action was filed on 21 September 1983, but defendant The Rich Company was not joined as a party or notified of the claim until 9 January 1985 when an amended complaint was filed. Eventually the claim was dismissed by an order of summary judgment on the explicit ground that it was barred by the three-year statute of limitations. In appealing from that order plaintiff paid little heed either to our rules of appellate procedure,…