Branch Banking & Trust Co. v. Simpson

BRYANT, Judge.

Where a judge's oral rendering of a ruling to deny plaintiff's motion for summary judgment was not reduced to writing, signed by the judge, and entered in the clerk's office, a subsequent ruling by another judge to allow plaintiff's renewed motion for summary judgment was proper and did not violate the rule prohibiting one judge from overruling the order of another judge.

On 25 June 2000, defendant Linda Rogers Simpson and her former husband Thomas Curry Simpson obtained a line of credit as co-borrowers from plaintiff Branch Banking and Trust (BB & T). Thomas deposited the…