Legal Opinion

Harter v. Vernon

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided July 18, 2000No. COA99-992PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HUNTER, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellants Kenneth Wayne Harter and John Robert Payne (collectively “plaintiffs”) appeal the trial court’s grant of defendant-appellees’ C. D. Vernon and U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company (collectively “defendants”) motion for summary judgment under N.C.R. Civ. P. 56. Although the trial court delineated its grant of that motion only by stating that “the motion should be granted for the reasons stated in defendants’ brief,” we agree with defendants that plaintiffs failed to timely file their action in state court, and thus the statute of limitations has run on…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Guaranty Trust Co. v. YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
  3. Guaranty Trust Co. v. YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
  4. Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1980
  5. Ruby Humphreys, Administratrix of the Estate of William Orvie Humphreys, Deceased v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1959

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3Cited by22 opinions

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