Meyer v. Fenner & Beane

Conceding that the first class of contracts may be void, because in violation of sections 2144 and 2145 of the Consolidated Statutes, still it would appear that the demurrer was properly overruled, as the second class of contracts does not seem to come within the purview of the statutes above mentioned. It is the established rule that where a general demurrer is filed to a complaint as a whole, if any count of tbe pleading is good and states a cause of action, the demurrer should be overruled. Griffin v. Baker, 192 N. C., 297, 134 S. E., 651.

A complaint must be fatally defective before it…