Baker v. Varser

While appellants present on this appeal numerous other assignments of error, decision here turns upon the one based on exceptions to the orders involved, on the ground that, at the time and under the existing situation, Judge Harris did not have jurisdiction to enter them. If he did not have such jurisdiction, and it is held that he did not, his action in signing the orders is in law a nullity, and must be so declared. For the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is derivative. Shepard v. Leonard, 223 N.C. 110, 25 S.E. 2d 445.

The jurisdiction of a regular judge of the Superior Court over the…