TRUSTEES OF ROWAN TECH. COLLEGE v. J. HYATT HAMMOND ASSOCIATES

No. 376PA84.

328 S.E.2d 274 (1985)

313 N.C. 230

The TRUSTEES OF ROWAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE v. J. HYATT HAMMOND ASSOCIATES, INC., Wagoner Construction Co., Inc., Wilford A. Hammond and J. Hyatt Hammond.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 2, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams, Boger, Grady, Davis & Tuttle, P.A. by Samuel F. Davis, Jr., Concord, for plaintiff-appellant.

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice by William C. Raper and Michael E. Ray, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellees J. Hyatt Hammond Associates, Inc., Wilford A. Hammond and J. Hyatt Hammond.


EXUM, Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether the four-year statute of repose contained in N.C.G.S. § 1-15(c), a statute dealing with professional malpractice claims, operates to bar plaintiff's claim for damages against defendant architects and engineers. We conclude that it does not because N.C.G.S. § 1-50(5), a statute dealing with claims against persons, among others, who design and supervise construction of buildings with a six...

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