ST. CLAIR v. RAKESTRAW

No. 8226SC1169.

313 S.E.2d 228 (1984)

Gabriel William ST. CLAIR and Sandra Price v. Mavis St. Clair RAKESTRAW and husband, Olan Rakestraw.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren & McKaig by Joseph Warren, III, and India Early Keith, Charlotte, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Badger & Johnson by David R. Badger, Charlotte, for defendant-appellant.


PHILLIPS, Judge.

Though the defendant contends with some force that the judge's refusal to continue the case improperly deprived her of a fair trial, by in effect requiring her to represent herself in this complicated and substantial case in which she had reason to believe counsel would assist her but no preparations for trial had been made, and her husband could not appear as a witness, the view of the appeal that we take makes it unnecessary to consider this contention...

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