Rider v. Lenoir County

This appeal comes here on a printed record of 499 pages. Tbe complaint covers 93 pages and tbe judgment 57. More than 30 assignments of error have been brought forward and argued in tbe briefs. All these have been duly considered and tbe entire record has been carefully examined. But necessarily we include in this opinion and tbe preliminary statement of facts only such references to tbe record as seem pertinent to decision. S. v. Smith, 221 N.C. 400, 20 S.E. 2d 360; S. v. Lea, 203 N.C. 13, 164 S.E. 737.

Tbe questions raised by tbe appeal fall into two classes: (1) those which relate to tbe…