Legal Opinion
Snelling & Snelling, Inc. v. Watson
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided May 15, 1979No. 7818SC496PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Judge.
Plaintiff assigns as error the court’s dismissal of the complaint pursuant to G.S. 55454(a), for failure to obtain a Certificate of Authority as required by G.S. 55-131. Plaintiff contends that it was not transacting business in North Carolina within the meaning of G.S. 55-131(a) since its business activities were solely interstate in nature. Therefore, plaintiff was not required to procure a Certificate of Authority and it was error to deny plaintiff access to the courts of North Carolina. In addition, plaintiff contends that if the statutory provisions of G.S. 55-131 and G.S.…
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