Eborn v. Ellis

May the Clerk of the Superior Court, under provisions of G. S., 105-394, relating to the use and the authorization of the use of facsimile signatures in signing summons, complaints, verifications of pleadings, notices, judgments or other papers in tax foreclosure proceedings, delegate to another the authority to render judgments in such proceedings? This is the question decisive of this appeal, and must be answered in the negative.

“The rendering of a judgment is a judicial act, to be done by the court only,” Hall, J., in Mathews v. Moore, 6 N. C., 181. “Judgments are the solemn determinations…