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DEVELOPMENT ENTERP. OF RALEIGH v. ORTIZ

No. 8610SC1218.

356 S.E.2d 922 (1987)

DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES OF RALEIGH, a North Carolina General Partnership, Plaintiff, v. Betty Faye Howard Bland ORTIZ; Estate of Donald E. Bland; North Carolina National Bank as Administrator, C.T.A. of the Estate of Donald E. Bland; Jeffrey Edwin Bland, Donna Helene Bland; Sumer Nicole Bland; Megan Elizabeth Bland; Elizabeth A. McCuiston Warren; Elizabeth A. McCuiston Warren, Administratrix of the Estate of William T. McCuiston; Estate of William T. McCuiston; Stephanie Anne McCuiston; William T. McCuiston, Jr. and William Tyler McCuiston, Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. James L. McMILLAN, Jr., Curtis Westbrook, Ronnie W. Snotherly and Jerry A. Cook, Third-Party Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Blackburn, Raleigh, and Stephen T. Daniel & Associates by Stephen T. Daniel and Thomas C. Grella, Morganton, for defendants and third-party plaintiffs.

Boxley, Bolton & Garber by Ronald H. Garber, Raleigh, for plaintiff and third-party defendants.

ARNOLD, Judge.

A contract must be considered as a whole, considering each clause and word with reference to other provisions and giving effect to each if possible by any reasonable construction. State v. Corl, 58 N.C. App. 107, 293 S.E.2d 264 (1982); see also 4 Williston on Contracts § 619 (3d ed. 1961). When general terms and specific statements are included in the same contract and there is a conflict, the general...

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