STRICKLAND v. HUGHES

No. 437.

160 S.E.2d 313 (1968)

273 N.C. 481

Ronald Wayne STRICKLAND, by his Next Friend, W. H. Steed v. Leslie HUGHES, Original Defendant, The Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Additional Defendant.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 17, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Lambeth, Jr., Thomasville, for plaintiff appellant.

Charles H. McGirt, of Walser, Brinkley, Walser & McGirt, Lexington, for additional defendant, Aetna Casualty and Surety Co., Intervener.


HUSKINS, Justice.

Only parties of record to a suit have a standing therein which will enable them to take part in or control the proceedings. If they desire to seek relief with respect to the matters involved they must either obtain the status of parties in the suit or, in proper instances, institute an independent action. Thus a person not originally a party may be permitted to become a party by his own intervention. "In legal terminology, `intervention' is the proceeding...

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