STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. ROWSON

No. 692SC232.

169 S.E.2d 132 (1969)

5 N.C. App. 629

STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. Henry Wilson ROWSON, Abraham Rowson, Jr., Executor, Known and Unknown Born and Unborn Heirs of Abraham Rowson, Deceased: and Richard Powell, Ancillary Administrator.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 13, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan, Deputy Atty. Gen. Harrison Lewis and Staff Atty. James E. Magner, Raleigh, for State Highway Commission, plaintiff appellee.

Richard Powell, Greenville, for defendants appellants.


PARKER, Judge.

It is a settled principle of law in this State that a consent judgment is the contract of the parties entered upon the records of a court of competent jurisdiction with its sanction and approval. King v. King, 225 N.C. 639, 35 S.E.2d 893; Keen v. Parker, 217 N.C. 378, 3 S.E.2d 209. "Moreover, the power of a Court to sign a consent judgment depends upon the unqualified consent of the parties thereto, King v. King, supra, and `the consent of the...

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