Terra Mar Financial Corp. v. Federal National Mortgage Association

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming the lower court’s decision to grant a plea in bar on the statute of limitations but based on different reasoning than the circuit court’s
• applying the right result, wrong reason doctrine where the evidence was insufficient to support termination under Code § 16.1-283(C)(2) but supported termination under Code § 16.1-283(C)(1)
• considering the right-result-wrong-reason argument first “to avoid reaching” the constitutionality of a statutory provision
• finding sufficient information in the record that a plaintiff’s cause of action accrued before a new statute of limitations took effect and departing from a trial court’s constitutional analysis in affirming dismissal
• “In instances where a [lower] court’s decision is correct, but its reasoning is incorrect, and the record supports the correct reason, we uphold the judgment pursuant to the right result for the wrong reason doctrine.”
• applying right for the wrong reason analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).