Legal Opinion

Deans v. Layton

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided April 5, 1988No. 877SC923PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PARKER, Judge.

On appeal defendant raises five assignments of error for consideration by this Court: (i) the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss and entry of summary judgment for plaintiffs where the contract was signed only by Claude E. Deans and the land was owned by plaintiffs as tenants by the entirety; (ii) the trial court’s granting of plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment where defendant’s affirmative defenses of mutual mistake, misrepresentation, and lack of consideration raised genuine issues of material fact; (iii) the trial court’s granting of plaintiffs’ motion…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Ragsdale v. KennedySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1974
  2. Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1980
  3. Bernick v. JurdenSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1982
  4. Long v. City of CharlotteSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1982
  5. Investment Properties of Asheville, Inc. v. NorburnSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1972

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3Cited by16 opinions

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  4. State v. RicoCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2012
  5. Taylor v. GoreCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2003

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