Volivar v. Richmond Cedar Works
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Ward, J., at Fall Term, 1909, of TYRRELL. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court by Associate Justice Brown.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The defendant is a foreign corporation owning property and doing business in this State prior to the act complained of and up to this time. • 1
The alleged damage occurred in 1904, and this action was commenced 12 November, 1908. The defendant at all times maintained a process agent in the State, upon whom service *657could be bad, and upon wbom service actually was bad in tbe case now being considered. • Tbe defendant pleaded tbe three years’ statute of limitations. Tbis Court held tbat tbe plea is not available to a nonresident corporation.
Some of tbe earlier utterances of tbis Court upon tbe…
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