State Highway Commission v. Rowson

It is a settled principle of law in this State that a consent judgment is the contract of the parties entered upon the records of a court of competent jurisdiction with its sanction and approval. King v. King, 225 N.C. 639, 35 S.E. 2d 893; Keen v. Parker, 217 N.C. 378, 3 S.E. 2d 209. “Moreover, the power of a court to sign a consent judgment depends upon the unqualified consent of the parties thereto, King v. King, supra, and ‘the consent of the parties must still subsist at the time the court is called upon to exercise its juris diction and sign the consent judgment.’ ” Lee v. Rhodes, 227…