CLEMMONS v. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF GEORGIA

No. 695SC437.

171 S.E.2d 87 (1969)

6 N.C. App. 708

Lucille CLEMMONS v. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF GEORGIA.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. G. Smith and Jerry L. Spivey, Wilmington, for plaintiff appellee.

Marshall & Williams, by Lonnie B. Williams, Wilmington, for defendant appellant.


FRANK M. PARKER, Judge.

It is a generally recognized principle of English-American law that a plaintiff is not bound to prosecute his action to a finish merely because he has begun it, but may, up to some point in the litigation, abandon his action without losing his right to come back on another day. The sole question presented by this appeal is whether plaintiff's voluntary nonsuit in this case was taken in apt time to entitle him to judgment of nonsuit as a matter...

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