Owen v. . Hines

Two questions arise bn this appeal: (1) Does the complaint contain a misjoinder of causes of action? (2) Is there a mis-joinder of parties to the action? Testing the complaint by well settled principles of law in this State, a negative answer to each question follows.(1) The general rule, deducible from the decisions of this Court pertaining to the appropriate statute, G. S., 1-123, is that, if the causes of action be not entirely distinct and unconnected, if they arise out of one and the same transaction, or a series of transactions forming one dealing and all tending to one end, if one…