L & M GAS COMPANY v. Leggett

161 S.E.2d 23 (1968)

273 N.C. 547

L & M GAS COMPANY, Incorporated

v.

Etta Brown A. LEGGETT.

No. 851.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 1, 1968.

W. Earl Britt, Fairmont, for plaintiff appellant.

L. J. Britt & Son and Robert Weinstein, Lumberton, for defendant appellee.

BRANCH, Justice.

It is well settled law in North Carolina that a demurrer admits, for the purpose of testing the sufficiency of the pleadings, the truth of factual averments well stated and relevant inferences of fact reasonably deducible therefrom. Strong's N.C. Index, Vol. 3, Pleadings, § 12, p. 625.

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