Michigan National Bank v. Hanner

The sole question presented by this appeal is: Did the court err in striking from defendant’s amended answer the “further answer and counterclaim”?

In allowing the motion to strike from the amended answer the defendant’s “further answer and counterclaim” the trial judge found, inter alia, “that a similar further answer and counterclaim in almost identical language was heretofore stricken by order of Honorable James H. Pou Bailey at the July 1965 Regular Civil Session, Wake Superior Court.”

The power of one judge of the superior court is equal to and coordinate with that of another, and a judge…