BROWN v. OWENS

No. 525.

111 S.E.2d 705 (1959)

251 N.C. 348

Alma S. BROWN v. R. G. OWENS and A. G. Maness.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Davis and Ottway Burton, Asheboro, for plaintiff, appellant.

Miller & Beck, Asheboro, for defendants, appellees.


BOBBITT, Justice.

Plaintiff may not attack by independent action the judgment of November 25, 1957, entered in said separate civil action, on the ground that its validity is dependent upon her consent and she did not consent thereto. The said judgment may be attacked on this ground only by motion in the cause.

"While it is a settled principle of law in this jurisdiction that a consent judgment cannot be modified or set aside without the consent of the parties...

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