Law360 Canada ( April 30, 2025, 12:09 PM EDT) -- Appeal by appellants from a summary motion judge’s determination that a claim for membership in the cooperative advanced by Edward was statute-barred. The case involved a family dispute over the ownership of Soil and Sea Co-op Limited, a cooperative formed by Dorothy and her six children to hold a parcel of land in Nova Scotia. In 2006, Dorothy requested her children to return their shares. Most complied, but Edward did not, leading to the purported revocation of his membership and a legal challenge over the validity of this revocation and whether his claim was statute-barred. The appellants argued that there were material disputes of fact regarding the revocation process of Edward’s membership, which should have precluded summary judgment. The respondents contended that the limitation period had expired. In the 2023 decision, the motion judge dismissed both parties’ motions for summary judgment on the validity of Edward’s share revocation, citing genuine issues of material fact. However, the motion judge had found that the limitation period for Edward’s claim had expired, as he was aware of the revocation in 2006, and no genuine issue of material fact existed regarding the expiry of the limitation period. Thus, the motion judge granted summary judgment dismissing Edward’s claim as statute-barred....