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Hillsboro v. Bank

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Apr 1, 1926
132 S.E. 657 (N.C. 1926)

Opinion

(Filed 28 April, 1926.)

Appeal and Error — Divided Count — Judgment.

The judgment of the Superior Court stands as the law of the case when the Justices of the Supreme Court are equally divided in their opinion, one of them having been of counsel and taking no part therein.

APPEAL by plaintiff and defendant, the Maryland Casualty Company, from Grady, J., at September Term, 1925, of ORANGE. Affirmed.

Gattis Gattis and A. H. Graham for plaintiff.

W. S. Lockhart for Merchants and Farmers Bank.

Craige Craige and Fuller Fuller for Maryland Casualty Company.


From judgment rendered herein, that the town of Hillsboro recover from the Merchants and Farmers Bank the sum of $1,215.97, and interest thereon from 11 June, 1923, and costs, plaintiff and defendant, Maryland Casualty Company, appealed.


The Court being evenly divided in opinion, Brogden, J., having been of counsel for the defendant, Merchants and Farmers Bank, in the trial below, not sitting, the judgment of the court below is affirmed and stands as the decision in this case without becoming a precedent. McCarter v. R. R., 187 N.C. 863.

Affirmed.


Summaries of

Hillsboro v. Bank

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Apr 1, 1926
132 S.E. 657 (N.C. 1926)
Case details for

Hillsboro v. Bank

Case Details

Full title:TOWN OF HILLSBORO v. THE MERCHANTS AND FARMERS BANK AND THE MARYLAND…

Court:Supreme Court of North Carolina

Date published: Apr 1, 1926

Citations

132 S.E. 657 (N.C. 1926)
191 N.C. 828

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