GRIFFIN v. BARNES

No. 674.

87 S.E.2d 560 (1955)

242 N.C. 306

Wilson GRIFFIN and Nell Johnson Griffin, co-partners, trading as Wilson Griffin Decorators, v. J. C. BARNES and wife, Henrietta J. Barnes.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. A. McLeod, Max E. McLeod, Dunn, for defendants-appellants.

Nance & Barrington, Fayetteville, for plaintiffs-appellees.


WINBORNE, Justice.

It is noted at the threshold of this appeal that while in the record filed in this Court reference is made to a complaint in this purported action, no pleadings are contained therein. "The pleadings are a necessary part of the record proper upon appeal, and where the pleadings are omitted from the record, the appeal must be dismissed",—headnote epitomizing this holding in State v. Ravensford Lbr. Co., 207 N.C. 47, 175 S.E. 713. Such is the...

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