LOVETTE v. LLOYD

No. 742.

73 S.E.2d 886 (1953)

236 N.C. 663

LOVETTE v. LLOYD et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 6, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert W. Kennon, Durham, for plaintiff-appellant.

Victor S. Bryant, Ralph N. Strayhorn, Durham, and Ruark, Ruark & Moore, Raleigh, for original defendants, G. D. Lloyd and M. G. Copelan, individually and trading as Lloyd & Copelan Plumbing Company, appellees.

Fuller, Reade, Umstead & Fuller, Durham, for additional defendants, Claiborne Byrd and F. L. Byrd, copartners, trading as Consolidated Painters, and U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co., appellants.


ERVIN, Justice.

This case is governed by the North Carolina Workmen's Compensation Act, and not by the Code of Civil Procedure. In consequence, Burgess v. Trevathan, 236 N.C. 157, 72 S.E.2d 231, has no application to it.

The controlling provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act appear in the statute codified as G.S. § 97-10. This somewhat prolix enactment establishes the rules enunciated...

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