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        "text": "MARTIN, John C., Judge.\nOn 3 July 1995, plaintiff filed a complaint naming \u201cTroy Day t/a Day Enterprises\u201d as defendant, and alleging defendant had, in October 1994, negligently excavated its property which was adjacent to plaintiffs property, resulting in damage to plaintiffs land. The summons and a copy of plaintiffs complaint were served on Troy Day who filed an answer denying the allegations of the complaint and moved to dismiss the action pursuant to G.S. \u00a7 1A-1, Rule 12(b)(7), for plaintiffs failure to join a necessary party.\nOn 19 November 1997, shortly before the matter was scheduled for trial, plaintiff filed a motion to amend the complaint \u201cto change the name of the defendant from \u2018Troy Day t/a Day Enterprises\u2019 to \u2018Day Enterprises, Inc.\u2019 \u201d Defendant objected and alternatively moved to dismiss the amended complaint as barred by the statute of limitations.\nThe trial court found that Day Enterprises, Inc., rather than Troy Day, was the proper party from whom relief was sought by plaintiff and permitted the amendment to the complaint. However, the court determined that plaintiff\u2019s failure to name the proper defendant was neither a misnomer nor a clerical error, that the amendment substituting the new party defendant was a new action and did not relate back to the date of filing of the original complaint, that the conduct of Day Enterprises, Inc., complained of by plaintiff occurred more than three years prior to the effective date of the amended complaint, and that plaintiff\u2019s action against Day Enterprises, Inc., was therefore barred by G.S. \u00a7 1-52(16). Plaintiff appeals from the trial court\u2019s order dismissing the complaint. We affirm.\nG.S. \u00a7 1A-1, Rule 15(c), provides:\n[a] claim asserted in an amended pleading is deemed to have been interposed at the time the claim in the original pleading was interposed, unless the original pleading does not give notice of the transactions, occurrences, or series of transactions or occurrences, to be proved pursuant to the amended pleading.\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 1A-1, Rule 15(c) (1990). The notice requirement of Rul\u00e9 15(c) cannot be met where an amendment has the effect of adding a new party to the action, as opposed to correcting a misnomer. Crossman v. Moore, 341 N.C. 185, 459 S.E.2d 715 (1995). Thus, the sole issue presented by this appeal is whether plaintiff\u2019s amended complaint, naming \u201cDay Enterprises, Inc.\u201d as defendant rather than \u201cTroy Day t/a Day Enterprises\u201d had the effect of adding a new party, or whether the amendment simply corrected a misnomer, permitting relation back pursuant to Rule 15(c).\nPlaintiff argues that its original intent to sue Day Enterprises, Inc., is reflected in its original complaint, that it was only after the statute of limitations had run that plaintiff discovered it had \u201cinaccurately described\u201d the defendant, and therefore, plaintiff never intended to add a new party to the litigation. Plaintiffs intent, however, is not dispositive.\nIn Crossman, supra, the plaintiff sued for personal injuries arising from an automobile collision, naming Van Dolan Moore and the Van Dolan Moore Company, Inc., as defendants in her original complaint. However, Van Dolan Moore, II, the son of the named defendant, had been the actual driver of the vehicle involved in the collision. The plaintiff moved to amend her complaint to reflect Van Dolan Moore, II, as the defendant and sought to have the amendment relate back to the original filing. As in the present case, the trial court granted the plaintiff\u2019s motion to amend, but denied the motion that the amendment relate back to the time of the filing of the complaint. The effect of the trial court\u2019s order was that plaintiff\u2019s claim was barred by the statute of limitations. The Supreme Court affirmed, stating unequivocally:\nWhen the amendment seeks to add a party-defendant or substitute a party-defendant to the suit, the required notice cannot occur. As a matter of course, the original claim cannot give notice of the transactions or occurrences to be proved in the amended pleading to a defendant who is not aware of his status as such when the original claim is filed. We hold that this rule does not apply to the naming of a new party-defendant to an action. It is not authority for the relation back of a claim against a new party.\nId. at 187, 459 S.E.2d at 717 (emphasis added).\nIn Franklin v. Winn Dixie Raleigh, Inc., 117 N.C. App. 28, 450 S.E.2d 24 (1994), affirmed, 342 N.C. 404, 464 S.E.2d 46 (1995), the plaintiffs named \u201cWinn Dixie Stores, Inc.\u201d as defendant in their original complaint, rather than the proper defendant \u201cWinn-Dixie Raleigh, Inc.\u201d We held plaintiffs\u2019 failure to name the proper defendant did not result from a misnomer, and the amendment did not relate back. Id. at 40, 450 S.E.2d at 31.\nIn the present case, plaintiffs original complaint clearly named Troy Day, an individual, as defendant and alleged that he was \u201ca citizen and resident of Cabarrus County.\u201d Plaintiffs amendment to the complaint substituted the corporate defendant, Day Enterprises, Inc., for the original individual defendant, thereby naming a new party-defendant rather than correcting a misnomer. Accordingly, under Crossman, the amendment does not relate back.and plaintiffs claim against Day Enterprises, Inc., is barred by G.S. \u00a7 1-52(16). See Rogerson v. Fitzpatrick, 121 N.C. App. 728, 468 S.E.2d 447 (1996). The order dismissing the action must be affirmed.\nAffirmed.\nJudges TIMMONS-GOODSON and HORTON concur.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Lovekin & Associates, by Stephen L. Lovekin and D. Shawn Clark, for plaintiff-appellant.",
      "Tate, Young, Morphis, Bach & Taylor, L.L.P., by Thomas C. Morphis and Paul E. Culpepper, for defendant-appellee."
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    "head_matter": "BOB KILLIAN TIRE, INC., Plaintiff v. DAY ENTERPRISES, INC., Defendant\nNo. COA98-172\n(Filed 3 November 1998)\nPleadings\u2014 amendment to complaint \u2014 corporate name added \u2014 no relation back \u2014 complaint time barred\nThe trial court did not err by dismissing a complaint under the statute of limitations where the complaint clearly named Troy Day, an individual, as defendant and alleged that he was a citizen and resident of Cabarrus County, and an amendment substituted the corporate defendant, Day Enterprises, Inc., for the individual defendant, thereby naming a new party-defendant rather than correcting a misnomer. The amendment does not relate back and the claim against the corporate defendant is barred by N.C.G.S. \u00a7 1-52(16).\nAppeal by plaintiff from order entered 17 December 1997 by Judge Gregory R. Hayes in Catawba County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 7 October 1998.\nLovekin & Associates, by Stephen L. Lovekin and D. Shawn Clark, for plaintiff-appellant.\nTate, Young, Morphis, Bach & Taylor, L.L.P., by Thomas C. Morphis and Paul E. Culpepper, for defendant-appellee."
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