Casey v. Grantham

79 S.E.2d 735 (1954)

239 N.C. 121

CASEY et al.

v.

GRANTHAM et al.

No. 236.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 15, 1954.

J. Faison Thomson & Son and S. B. Berkeley, Goldsboro, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Paul B. Edmundson, Goldsboro, for defendant, appellee.

PARKER, Justice.

Upon the essential or ultimate facts stated in the complaint, which on a demurrer we are required to construe liberally with a view to substantial justice between the parties with every reasonable intendment to be made in favor of the pleader, these three questions are presented for decision: First, does the complaint state a…