Court Opinion

ID: 9611778
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:00:06.379662+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:40:04.750320
License: Public Domain

CARLEY, Justice,
concurring.
I completely agree with the holding of the majority opinion that a stipulated extension of the time to file an answer also extends the time to file a compulsory counterclaim, so long as the period of limitations applicable to that counterclaim did not expire before the complaint was filed. I concur in the Court’s opinion because this case did indeed involve a compulsory counterclaim. However, I write sepa*670rately to point out that this same rule also applies where the counterclaim is permissive. OCGA § 9-3-97 does not differentiate between permissive and compulsory counterclaims, and the majority’s interpretation of that statute logically applies to both types of counterclaims.
Decided November 15, 1999.
Wilson, Strickland & Benson, Warner R. Wilson, Jr., Sara L. Doyle, for appellant.
Temple, Strickland, Counts & Dinges, William D. Strickland, Jason B. Schwartz, James E. Spence, Jr., for appellee.
Philip M. Casto, pro se.
I am authorized to state that Presiding Justice Fletcher and Justice Hunstein join in this opinion.