Rawls v. Lampert, 811SC1157
Citation | 293 S.E.2d 620,58 N.C.App. 399 |
Decision Date | 20 July 1982 |
Docket Number | No. 811SC1157,811SC1157 |
Court | Court of Appeal of North Carolina (US) |
Parties | John Thomas RAWLS, III v. Sadron Clyde LAMPERT. |
Shearin, Gaw & Archbell by Roy A. Archbell, Jr., Kitty Hawk, for plaintiff-appellant.
Kellogg, White, Evans, Sharp & Michael by Steven D. Michael, Manteo, and Henderson & Shuford by Robert E. Henderson, Charlotte, for defendant-appellee.
In Snyder v. Freeman, 300 N.C. 204, 266 S.E.2d 593 (1980), we find the following statement of the standard applicable to a dismissal pursuant to G.S. 1A-1, Rule 12(b)(6):
Sutton v. Duke, 277 N.C. 94, 102-03, 176 S.E.2d 161, 166 (1970), quoting Moore, Federal Practice, § 12.08 (1968). (Emphasis original.)
Id. at 208-09, 266 S.E.2d at 597. In ruling on such a motion, the allegations of the complaint must be viewed as admitted. Stanback v. Stanback, 297 N.C. 181, 254 S.E.2d 611 (1979).
In general, the statute of limitations for a breach of contract is three years. G.S. 1-52(1); Reidsville v. Burton, 269 N.C. 206, 152 S.E.2d 147 (1967). However, the statute of limitations does not begin to run until the contract is breached. Reidsville v. Burton; Silver v. Board of Transportation, 47 N.C.App. 261, 267 S.E.2d 49 (1980). Thus, in the present case the statute of limitations did not begin to run until a reasonable time for repayment had passed. This Court recently had occasion to address the issue of what constitutes a reasonable time for repayment of a loan.
In Helms v. Prikopa, 51 N.C.App. 50, 275 S.E.2d 516 (1981), we dealt with a loan of $14,000 pursuant to an oral agreement fixing no time or manner of repayment. The plaintiff demanded full payment of the loan 13 months after advancement, and the trial court allowed summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff. We held that the loan was repayable within a reasonable time and that summary judgment had been improperly entered. We wrote as follows:
Our Court recently affirmed the rule, that contractual performance must be within a reasonable time when none is stated, in Rodin v. Merritt, 48 N.C.App. 64, 268 S.E.2d 539 (1980). In Rodin, the Court further held that the determination of what constitutes a reasonable time for performance required "taking into account the purposes the parties intended to accomplish." Id. at 72, 268 S.E.2d at 544. Such a determination involves a mixed question of law and fact, "[a]nd, in this State, authority is to the effect that, where this question of reasonable time is a debatable one, it must be referred to the jury for decision." Holden v. Royall, 169 N.C. 676, 678, 86 S.E. 583, 584 (1915); Claus v. Lee, 140 N.C. 552, 53 S.E. 433 (1906); Blalock v. Clark, 137 N.C. 140, 49 S.E. 88 (1904).
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