Cato v. Crown Financial, Ltd.

EAGLES, Chief Judge.

We first consider Whether the trial court erred in retrying this case de novo. Plaintiff first argues that the Walsers’ “broadside exception” to the receiver’s report was too vague to justify review and should be treated as having waived the right to review. Second, plaintiff argues that the trial should not have been de novo and that the receiver’s report should have been accorded deference. Plaintiff contends that the trial court should have interpreted G.S. 1-507.7 “in a way that serves the statute’s purpose.” Plaintiff asserts that “[p]aying for the work of an expert…