Phelps v. McCotter

Pep CuRiAM.

Defendants’ only assignment of error is to the denial by the court of their motion for consolidation for trial of the instant case and the special proceeding for actual partition.

Whether or not consolidation of cases for trial, where permissible, will be ordered is in the discretion of the court. Horton v. Perry, 229 N.C. 319, 49 S.E. 2d 734; Peeples v. R. R.; Edwards v. R. R.; Kearney v. R. R., 228 N.C. 590, 46 S.E. 2d 649; Robinson, Hudson, and Blackbum v. Transportation Co., 214 N.C. 489, 199 S.E. 725; Person v. Bank, 11 N.C. 294; McIntosh, N. C. Practice & Procedure, 2d Ed.,…