Jones v. City of Greensboro

HEDRICK, Judge.

Plaintiff first assigns error to the order allowing defendants’ motion for summary judgment with respect to plaintiffs claims for relief nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

G.S. § 1-54, the one-year statute of limitations, in pertinent part provides:

Within one year an action or proceeding —(3) For libel, slander, assault, battery, or false imprisonment.

The record before us demonstrates, as did the record before the trial court at the time of the hearing on defendants’ motion to dismiss and for judgment on the pleadings and, in the alternative, for summary judgment, that plaintiffs…