Guerrero v. Cain

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• holding that the plaintiffs were barred from asserting claims under their lease agreements after failing to assert those claims as compulsory counterclaims in a previous suit
• observing that \[e]ffective appellate review ... [is] made more difficult by the filing of an incomplete record on appeal.\
• noting that the “plaintiffs [sought] damages in excess of $10,000, which exceeds the $3,000jurisdictional amount in small claim actions pursuant to the provisions of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-210(1)” in effect at that time
• dismissing separate action where plaintiff should have brought claims by asserting counterclaims in an appeal from a prior small claims court action
• “[The] plaintiffs had the opportunity to file . . . a counterclaim in an appeal from the magistrate’s judgment[.]”

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