McDaniel v. Quakenbush
Supreme Court of North Carolina
1Opinion of the CourtDeNNy, J.
The appellants assign as error the overruling of their demurrer and the continuance of the restraining order until the final hearing.
A demurrer to a complaint on the ground that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action should be overruled if the complaint, when liberally construed in favor of the pleader, alleges facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. Or, to put it another way, if any portion of a complaint alleges facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, or if fa,cts sufficient for that purpose can be reasonably and fairly gathered from it, the…
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