FOWLE v. FOWLE

No. 521.

122 S.E.2d 722 (1961)

255 N.C. 720

Mary P. FOWLE v. Dr. Willis H. FOWLE, III, Dr. E. D. Shackleford and Dr. Thornton H. Cleek.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 22, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ottway Burton and Linwood T. Peoples, Asheboro, for plaintiff, appellant.

Jordan, Wright, Henson & Nichols, by Charles E. Nichols, Greensboro, for Dr. E. D. Shackleford and Dr. Thornton H. Cleek, defendants, appellees.


PER CURIAM.

These are the essential allegations of plaintiff's complaint, so far as this appeal is concerned:

On 28 January 1960 the defendant Dr. Willis H. Fowle, III, maliciously and wrongfully instituted proceedings before the clerk of the superior court of Randolph County under the provisions of G.S. Ch. 122, Art. 3, to have plaintiff, his wife, committed to a state hospital for the mentally disordered. The clerk acting under the provisions of G.S. Ch...

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