O'Neill v. Southern National Bank

HEDRICK, Judge.

We first consider the Bank’s purported appeal based on an exception to the 4 January 1978 Order denying the Bank’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. An Order denying a Rule 12(b)(6) motion is interlocutory and clearly not appealable. G.S. § 1-277; Smith v. State, 289 N.C. 303, 222 S.E. 2d 412 (1976); North Carolina Consumers Power, Inc. v. Duke Power Co., 285 N.C. 434, 206 S.E. 2d 178 (1974); Acorn v. Jones Knitting Corp., 12 N.C. App. 266, 182 S.E. 2d 862 (1971). Furthermore, the record…