STRICKLAND v. KORNEGAY

No. 239.

83 S.E.2d 903 (1954)

240 N.C. 758

Mrs. Mary E. STRICKLAND, George Strickland and wife, Lee Strickland; Herman Strickland and wife, Lillian Strickland; Garland Strickland and wife, Flora Strickland; Major Strickland and wife, Lucille Strickland; Bessie Strickland (unmarried); Callie Strickland (unmarried); Mary S. Register and husband, B. R. Register; Effie S. Adams and husband, Braxton Adams; Essie S. Howell and husband, B. D. Howell; Maybelle S. Price and husband, Simpson Price; Kattie S. Creech and husband, Robert Creech, v. Lizzie KORNEGAY and Lamont Kornegay.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 13, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Reed & Griffin, Kinston, for defendants-appellants.

J. Faison Thomson and Son, George R. Britt, Goldsboro, for plaintiffs-appellees.


JOHNSON, Justice.

This cause was heard during the second week of the Wayne term of court which convened March 1, 1954. By stipulation of the parties, it was agreed "that the presiding Judge might sit without a jury, hear the evidence, find the facts and enter judgment thereon, out of term and out of the county, to have the same effect as if entered during the term." Thereupon Judge Grady proceeded to hear the evidence offered by each side. It consisted of the testimony...

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