King v. Motley

“Tbe office of demurrer is to test tbe sufficiency of a pleading, admitting, for tbe purpose, tbe truth of tbe allegations of fact contained therein; and ordinarily relevant inferences of fact, necessarily deducible therefrom, are also admitted . . .,” Stacy, C. J., in Ballinger v. Thomas, 195 N.C. 517, 142 S.E. 761. See also McCampbell v. Building & Loan Asso., 231 N.C. 647, 58 S.E. 2d 617, and cases there cited.

Tbe statute G-.S. 1-151 requires that “in tbe construction of a pleading for tbe purpose of determining its effect its, allegations shall be liberally construed with a view to…