Streater v. Marks

147 S.E.2d 529 (1966)

267 N.C. 32

Marie STREATER

v.

Adell MARKS and Cornelius Eugene McCartha.

No. 522.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 13, 1966.

Pittman, Pittman & Pittman, Rockingham, for defendant appellant Marks.

Bynum, Blount, Leath & Hinson, Rockingham, Carpenter, Webb & Golding, Charlotte, for defendant appellee McCartha.

LAKE, Justice.

In Greene v. Charlotte Chemical Laboratories, Inc., 254 N.C. 680, 120 S.E.2d 82, followed in Bass v. Lee, 255 N.C. 73, 120 S.E.2d 570, this Court said:

"In an action against two defendants, as joint tort-feasors, may one defendant set up a plea for…