Dealers Specialties, Inc. v. Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
BRANCH, Chief Justice.
We are of the opinion that the majority in the Court of Appeals reached the correct result and except as hereinafter modified we affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals and adopt the reasoning and legal principles enunciated in that decision as our own.
I
We first consider Judge Becton’s dissent which in effect concluded that the agreement between plaintiff and defendant constituted only a conditional promise to pay and was conditioned on Autry’s unfulfilled obligation to complete the project.
The trial judge made a total of eleven findings of fact, and the only…
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