Harding v. Southern Loan & Insurance

The corporate plaintiff seeks and was awarded no relief. It is a necessary party only by reason of the prayer for relief by defendants who seek a foreclosure of the mortgage upon the real property belonging to the corporation. The appeal of the individual plaintiff must turn necessarily upon the disposition made of defendants’ appeal. Therefore, the question he seeks to present for decision requires no discussion.

On 8 October, 1938, plaintiff, an experienced hotel man, went to Edenton and inspected the real property known as the Joseph Hewes Hotel owned by the corporation, the capital stock…