ERVIN COMPANY v. Hunt
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Phillips, Judge. Judgment entered 9 December 1974 in District Court, Gaston County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 9 June 1975. Plaintiffs instituted an action in summary ejectment before a magistrate to move defendant from an apartment owned by plaintiffs alleging that defendant had failed to pay her rent.
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Appeal by defendant from Phillips, Judge. Judgment entered 9 December 1974 in District Court, Gaston County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 9 June 1975. Plaintiffs instituted an action in summary ejectment before a magistrate to move defendant from an apartment owned by plaintiffs alleging that defendant had failed to pay her rent. Defendant, acting as her own attorney, filed an answer and counterclaimed alleging proper payment of her rent and seeking $300,000 damages for plaintiffs’ alleged wilful and deliberate efforts to discredit and harass her. The judgment of the magistrate dismissed the…
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Judge.
For failure to comply with the Rules of Practice in the Court of Appeals, this appeal is subject to dismissal.
Nevertheless, we have carefully considered the merits of each of defendant’s assignments of error.
Defendant has presented twenty-four questions in her brief. Her “argument” consists of an assertion that she is entitled to a new trial because of (1) the facts contained in her statement of the case, (2) many errors cited in the case, (3) the lack of evidence presented before the courts below, (4) her absence when the judgments were entered below, and (5) the lack of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sykes v. BelkSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1971
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