Greenhill v. Crabtree

MARTIN (Harry C.), Judge.

Plaintiff’s sole assignment of error on appeal is the trial court’s denial of her motion to set aside the notice of dismissal. She argues that in North Carolina an attorney may not surrender or waive the substantive rights of his client without the client’s express authority, that the second voluntary dismissal of her claim operated as a final adjudication of her substantive rights, and that her attorney, William Blue, entered the dismissal without her authority. For the following reasons, we affirm the order of the trial court denying plaintiff relief.

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