Wilburn v. Wilburn

PeR Cueiam.

Defendant assigns as error the court’s refusal to grant her request for a continuance made on 5 March. Continuances are not favored. The granting or denial of a motion to continue is a matter in the sound discretion of the trial judge and will not be disturbed unless an abuse of discretion is made to appear. Cleeland v. Cleeland, 249 N.C. 16, 105 S.E. 2d 114; Watters v. Parrish, 252 N.C. 787, 115 S.E. 2d 1.

The facts appearing in the record, summarized in the foregoing statement, do not show an abuse of discretion. To the contrary, they indicate the court’s desire to afford…