Hoke v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp.

An appeal from a judgment rendered in the Superior Court takes the case out of the jurisdiction of the Superior Court. Thereafter, pending the appeal, the judge is functus officio. Bledsoe v. Nixon, 69 N. C., 81; S. v. Casey, 201 N. C., 185, 159 S. E., 337; S. v. Lea, 203 N. C., 316, 166 S. E., 292; S. v. Edwards, 205 N. C., 661, 172 S. E., 399; Vaughan v. Vaughan, 211 N. C., 354, 190 S. E., 492; Ragan v. Ragan, 214 N. C., 36, 197 S. E., 554; Ridenhour v. Ridenhour, 225 N. C., 508; Lawrence v. Lawrence, 226 N. C., 221; Clark v. Cagle, 226 N. C., 230.

“. . . ‘the cause’ is by the appeal taken…