Lovegrove v. Lovegrove

We are met at the threshold of this appeal by a question of jurisdiction of which we must take judicial notice ex mero motu. Shepard v. Leonard, 223 N.C. 110, 25 S.E. 2d 445; S. v. Clarke, 220 N.C. 392, 17 S.E. 2d 468; S. v. Morgan, 226 N.C. 414, 38 S.E. 2d 166; S. v. Jones, 227 N.C. 94, 40 S.E. 2d 700; S. v. Miller, 225 N.C. 213, 34 S.E. 2d 143.

The right to demand a change of venue and the authority of the courts to remove a cause from one county to another for trial is purely statu tory. 56 A.J. 4, 5, 49, 61. And the clerk of tbe Superior Court, whether he was acting as such or as ex…