Court Opinion

ID: 9588554
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:35:41.594489+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:00:59.574488
License: Public Domain

Judge Phillips
concurring.
Even apart from the Fourth Circuit holdings referred to, the trial court and the defendants construe the phrase “under this section” too narrowly. The phrase “under this section,” or one similar to it, appears in innumerable North Carolina statutes which grant rights that can be enforced in other courts. The liberal purpose of our rules leads me to believe that by the section involved our legislature intended to permit a dismissed suit to be refiled in our courts when the conditions stated in the rule are complied with, and had no rational reason to intend otherwise. In this case plaintiffs cause of action accrued under the law of North Carolina; the first suit was brought in a court with concurrent jurisdiction situated in this state; plaintiffs have met the conditions required by both the federal and state rules and are entitled to continue with their case in accordance therewith.