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  "name": "PROGRESSIVE LIGHTING, INC., Plaintiff v. HISTORIC DESIGNS, INC., Defendant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Progressive Lighting, Inc. v. Historic Designs, Inc.",
  "decision_date": "2003-03-18",
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    "judges": [
      "Chief Judge EAGLES and Judge GEER concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "PROGRESSIVE LIGHTING, INC., Plaintiff v. HISTORIC DESIGNS, INC., Defendant"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "MARTIN, Judge.\nPlaintiff filed a complaint seeking to recover a sum certain plus interest due on a statement of account for goods sold to defendant. Defendant, a North Carolina corporation, filed an answer, appearing pro se through its corporate secretary, who is not an attorney. Plaintiff moved to strike the answer as being in violation of G.S. \u00a7 84-5 and to enter a default judgment against defendant. On 23 July 2001, the district court granted the motion to strike the defendant\u2019s answer, but denied the motion for default judgment; defendant was given thirty days within which \u201cto file an answer through an attorney.\u201d Upon defendant\u2019s failure to file an answer, default judgment in favor of plaintiff was entered by the clerk of superior court on 12 March 2002. Defendant gave notice of appeal to this Court from the default judgment entered by the clerk.\nAssigning error both to the entry of the order striking its answer and to the entry of default judgment, defendant seeks to present the issue of whether, in North Carolina, a corporation may represent itself pro se through its corporate officers. However, defendant has no right of direct appeal to this Court from the default judgment entered by the clerk of superior court. Appeal from an order or judgment of the clerk of superior court entered in a civil action is to the appropriate division of the trial court. N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 1-301.1. Therefore, this Court has no jurisdiction and the appeal must be dismissed.\nAppeal dismissed.\nChief Judge EAGLES and Judge GEER concur.\n. The issue has been answered adversely to defendant in LexisNexis v. Travishan Corp., 155 N.C. App. 205, 573 S.E.2d 547 (2002).",
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        "author": "MARTIN, Judge."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Helms, Henderson & Associates, by Christian R. Troy, for plaintiff-appellee.",
      "Ferguson and Scarbrough, P.A., by James E. Scarbrough, for defendant-appellant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "PROGRESSIVE LIGHTING, INC., Plaintiff v. HISTORIC DESIGNS, INC., Defendant\nNo. COA02-705\n(Filed 18 March 2003)\nAppeal and Error\u2014 appeal from superior court clerk \u2014 to trial court before Court of Appeals\nAn appeal from a default judgment by a superior court clerk directly to the Court of Appeals was dismissed; appeal from an order or judgment by the clerk of superior court in a civil action is to the appropriate division of the trial court.\nAppeal by defendant from judgment entered 12 March 2002 by the Clerk of Superior Court of Cabarrus County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 17 February 2003.\nHelms, Henderson & Associates, by Christian R. Troy, for plaintiff-appellee.\nFerguson and Scarbrough, P.A., by James E. Scarbrough, for defendant-appellant."
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