Harris v. DePencier

WELLS, Judge.

The threshold question we must consider is whether an immediate appeal lies from Judge Lane’s order. See, Bailey v. Gooding, 301 N.C. 205, 208, 270 S.E. 2d 431, 433 (1980). Judge Lane’s order did not adjudicate all the claims or the rights and liabilities of all the parties joined in plaintiff’s action. It finally adjudicated only the rights and liabilities of two of the parties, the two corporate defendants. Under G.S. 1A-1, Rule 54 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, such a final determination of the rights and liabilities of one or more but less than all of the parties in a…