Gro-Mar Public Relations, Inc. v. Billy Jack Enterprises, Inc.

ERWIN, Judge.

One of the questions presented by this appeal pertains to the sufficiency of the summons. Our Supreme Court, in Wiles v. Construction Co., 295 N.C. 81, 243 S.E. 2d 756 (1978), upheld a sum mons containing the alleged infirmity with which we are here confronted, i.e., that the summons is not “directed to the defendant” as required by G.S. 1A-1, Rule 4(b). In holding that the summons there in question achieved service on the corporate defendant, Justice Copeland, speaking for the Court, held as follows:

“In the case sub judice, any confusion arising from the ambiguity in the…