Yancey v. North Carolina State Highway & Public Works Commission

Tbe question presented by tbis appeal is whether the respondent as an agency of the State can he required by the court to pay interest on a judgment against it from the date of its rendition until paid.

From the facts set out in the petitioners’ motion, admitted by the demurrer, it appears that judgment on the verdict was rendered 12 December, 1941, at a term of court which began 1 December, 1941, and that compensation for the taking of petitioners’ property was fixed as of the trial in the sum of $56,250. On 19 December, 1941, oral tender of the exact amount of the judgment, in full…