Pearce v. . Privette

Did the court below err in sustaining the demurrer? Ve think so.

“The office of demurrer is to test the sufficiency of a pleading, admitting, for the purpose, the truth of the allegations of fact contained therein, and ordinarily relevant inferences of fact, necessarily deducible therefrom are also admitted, . . .” Stacy, C. J., in Ballinger v. Thomas, 195 N. C., 517, 142 S. E., 761; Andrews v. Oil Co., 204 N. C., 268, 168 S. E., 228; Toler v. French, ante, 360.

Both the statute, C. S., 535, and decisions of this Court require that the pleading be liberally construed, and every reasonable…