BRANCH BANKING & TRUST CO. v. WHITFIELD

No. 394.

76 S.E.2d 334 (1953)

238 N.C. 69

BRANCH BANKING & TRUST CO. et al. v. WHITFIELD et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whitaker & Jeffress, Kinston, for plaintiff, appellant.

Wallace & Wallace, Kinston, for defendant, appellees.


PARKER, Justice.

Actions for a declaratory judgment under the provisions of G.S. § 1-253 et seq. will lie only in a case in which there is an actual or real existing controversy between parties having adverse interests in the matter in dispute. Lide v. Mears, 231 N.C. 111, 56 S.E.2d 404; Etheridge v. Leary, 227 N.C. 636, 43 S.E.2d 847; Town of Tryon v. Duke Power Co., 222 N.C. 200, 22 S.E.2d...

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