BOWEN v. MURPHREY

No. 313.

124 S.E.2d 882 (1962)

256 N.C. 681

Harvey BOWEN v. P. M. MURPHREY and wife, Gladys Carr Murphrey.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Hill Paylor, Farmville, for defendant Gladys Carr Murphrey, appellant.

John G. Dawson, Kinston, and K. A. Pittman, Snow Hill, for plaintiff, appellee.


BOBBITT, Justice.

No appeal having been taken therefrom, the judgment entered by Judge Bone at January Term, 1960, became and is a final judgment upon the merits. A judgment has been defined as "the final consideration and determination by a court of the rights of the parties, as those rights presently exist, upon matters submitted to it in an action or proceeding." (Our italics) 30A Am.Jur., Judgments § 2. "A final judgment is the conclusion of the law...

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