LANE v. GRISWOLD

No. 442.

159 S.E.2d 338 (1968)

273 N.C. 1

Janice H. LANE v. Alexander Brown GRISWOLD et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 28, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert, James & Williams, by Henry James, Jr., Charlotte, and Jordan, Wright, Henson & Nichols, by Karl N. Hill, Jr., Greensboro, for plaintiff appellant.

Hudson, Ferrell, Petree, Stockton, Stockton & Robinson, by R. M. Stockton, Jr., and W. F. Maready, Winston-Salem, and Covington & Burling, by David B. Isbell, Washington, D. C., for defendant appellees.


PARKER, C. J.

Defendants filed a demurrer to the complaint, and made a motion for judgment on the pleadings. A motion for judgment on the pleadings by defendants is tantamount to a demurrer on the ground that the complaint did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. Woodruff v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co., 260 N.C. 723, 133 S.E.2d 704; Fisher v. Taylor Motor Co.,

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