Carolina Power & Light Co. v. Iseley

This action was instituted in the Superior Court of Wake County under the authority and pursuant to the provisions of chapter 102, Public Laws of North Carolina, 1931, which is entitled, “An act to authorize declaratory judgments.”

In Walker v. Phelps, 202 N. C., 344, 163 S. E., 126, speaking of this act, we said: “This act is remedial; its purpose is to settle and afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status, and other legal relations, and is to be liberally'construed and administered. It is so declared in section 12 of the act.” A liberal construction of the…