Empire Manufacturing Co. v. Spruill

Clark, 0. J.

This action was begun under ch. 90, Laws 1913, known as the “Torrens Act.” The petition was filed in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Pamlico on 20 March, 1914; summons was issued against the defendants therein named on 25 March, 1914, and returned served. At the same time the summons was issued notice of the action was duly published in the Sentinel, a newspaper in that county, as required by law. No answer being filed by the return day, the clerk delivered to the examiner of titles, the petition with all the papers filed in the cause, with instructions to proceed…