B-W ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION v. SPENCER

No. 284.

149 S.E.2d 570 (1966)

268 N.C. 1

B-W ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. John K. SPENCER, Jr., and wife, Ann Lanier Spencer, Defendants, and Norge Sales Corporation, Forrest Sam Rogers, Southeast Machinery Company and Borg-Warner Corporation, Additional Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 26, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Glenn Pettyjohn, Winston-Salem, for original defendants Spencer, appellants.

Louis A. Bledsoe, Jr., and Joseph A. Moretz, Charlotte, for plaintiff and additional defendants Norge Sales Corp., and Borg-Warner Corp., appellees.


PARKER, Chief Justice.

G.S. § 1-14 provides "[a]n action is commenced as to each defendant when the summons is issued against him." The period prescribed for the commencement of the counterclaim for relief on the ground of fraud is three years after the cause of action has accrued. The action "shall not be deemed to have accrued until the discovery by the aggrieved party of the facts constituting the fraud." G.S. ...

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