Trustees of Rowan Technical College v. J. Hyatt Hammond Associates Inc.

EXUM, Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether the four-year statute of repose contained in N.C.G.S. § l-15(c), a statute dealing with professional malpractice claims, operates to bar plaintiffs claim for damages against defendant architects and engineers. We conclude that it does not because N.C.G.S. § 1-50 (5), a statute dealing with claims against persons, among others, who design and supervise construction of buildings with a six-year statute of repose, governs this claim. 1 We, therefore, reverse the Court of Appeals which decided to the contrary.

Rowan Technical…