Robinson v. Robinson

VAUGHN, Judge.

Defendant’s only assignment of error is whether the court erred in finding the defendant was subject to the jurisdiction of the North Carolina Courts.

Although the argument is not grounded in an assignment of error, defendant attempts to argue that plaintiff’s present claim should have been asserted as a compulsory counterclaim in the divorce action he started in Florida on 27 December 1979. In the first place, there was never personal service on plaintiff in that action. Second, the record fails to disclose that the action was pending at the time plaintiff started the present…