Carriker v. Miller

G.S. 1-121 provides that the complaint must be filed in the clerk’s office at or before the time of the issuance of summons, "provided, that the clerk may at the time of the issuance of summons on application of plaintiff by written order extend the time for filing complaint to a day certain not to exceed twenty (20) days, and a copy of such order shall be delivered to the defendant, or defendants, at the time of the service of summons in lieu of a copy of the complaint. . . .”

Defendant appellant contends that the critical word in the above-quoted portion of the statute is the word “copy,”…