NOLAND COMPANY v. LAXTON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

No. 459.

92 S.E.2d 398 (1956)

244 N.C. 50

NOLAND COMPANY, Incorporated, v. LAXTON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Incorporated and United States Casualty Company.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 2, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. L. Purrington, Jr., Raleigh, for plaintiff appellee.

Lassiter, Moore & Van Allen, Charlotte, for defendant appellants.


BARNHILL, Chief Justice.

The decisive question in this case is this: Was plaintiff's principal office and place of business located in Wake County on 19 April 1955, the day this action was instituted? The court below answered in the affirmative. We are constrained to hold to the contrary.

Our law of corporations is in large measure contained in ch. 55 of the General Statutes. Provisions therein referring to suits in behalf of or against domestic corporations...

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