STANLEY v. COX

No. 597.

117 S.E.2d 826 (1961)

253 N.C. 620

Harry R. STANLEY and wife, Mae K. Stanley, v. Merle D. COX.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 20, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam Younce, Greensboro, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter by Charles E. Melvin, Jr., Greensboro, for defendant, appellee.


PARKER, Justice.

Plaintiffs state in their brief, "the validity of defendant's claim of lien is governed by the state of the law in 1951, and involves the validity of the court's decree as a consent judgment for a lien to secure alimony in the divorce action of that year. G.S. 50-11. * * * In 1951 a consent judgment for alimony entered in an action for divorce a vinculo was unenforceable as a decree of court."

Ruffin, C. J., said for the Court in Rogers...

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