WHICHARD, Justice.
This case presents the issue of whether the one-year savings provision of N.C.G.S. § 1A-1, Rule 41(a)(1) applies when plaintiffs and defendants stipulate to a voluntary dismissal without prejudice of an action in a federal district court sitting in North Carolina and plaintiffs file the same action within the one-year period in a North Carolina state court. We hold that it does, and we thus affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals, though...
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