COTTON v. COTTON

No. 361.

153 S.E.2d 489 (1967)

269 N.C. 759

N. Herman COTTON and Wife, Irene Evans Cotton and Denver Lee Cotton and Wife, Marion Jackson Cotton, Petitioners, v. James Robie COTTON and Wife, Carolyn Cotton, Annette Cotton Pate and Husband, Earl E. Pate, and Carolyn Faye Cotton Flowers and Husband, Joel P. Flowers, Respondents.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 29, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Futrelle, Goldsboro, for petitioner appellants.

Braswell & Strickland, by Roland C. Braswell, Goldsboro, for respondent appellees.


PER CURIAM:

The principal objections raised to the findings and conclusions entered by Judge Peel involve the admissibility of evidence. This type of hearing is different and is governed by rules of evidence different from those followed in jury trials. The Judge's experience and learning enabled him to weigh and to evaluate the testimony and to disregard that which under strict rules would be inadmissible in a jury trial.

In this case the evidence of injury...

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