DeTorre v. Shell Oil Co.

JOHNSON, Judge.

Plaintiffs’ only Assignment of Error challenges the trial court’s granting of defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c). At issue is whether the trial court properly granted defendants’ motion as a matter of law. We find no error.

Our scope of review of a Rule 12(c) motion is to determine whether granting the motion was proper or in error. A motion for judgment on the pleadings, or a Rule 12(c) motion, is proper when all the material allegations of fact are admitted on the pleadings and only questions of law remain. Ragsdale v. Kennedy, 286 N.C.…