Allen v. Allemania Fire Insurance

The decisive question arising on this appeal is: Where an appeal has been taken to the Superior Court from judgment of a specially created recorder’s court in action on contract over which that court has concurrent original jurisdiction with the Superior Court, can the Superior Court permit an amendment to the complaint which sets up an equitable cause of action for the reformation of contract, over which the recorder’s court has no jurisdiction? The answer is “No.”

The recorder’s court of White Oak and Buckhorn Townships, Wake County, created by special act of the Legislature, Public Laws…