Cotten v. Laurel Park Estates, Inc.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
1Per curiam
The defendants demurred for misjoinder of causes of action and for misjoinder of parties, and appealed to the Supreme Court from the judgment overruling tbe demurrer.
The defendants argue, with persuasive but not convincing reasoning, that there is a misjoinder of causes of action and parties. That the complaint is bad for multifariousness; that the complaint contains inconsistent and contradictory causes of action. We cannot so interpret it. Taking the three causes of action, although inartificially set forth, as a whole — not disconnectedly — we think under a liberal construction, “with a…
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