GREEN BY GREEN v. Maness

VAUGHN, Chief Judge.

Defendant first argues that Judge Lane’s order is void because it was signed out-of-session over defendant’s objection. Judge Lane presided as a special judge over a one-week civil session of Guilford County Superior Court, beginning 16 June 1980. The hearing in this case was held on 19 June 1980, and the order was not signed until 13 August 1980 and filed the following day. It is true that a special judge enjoys the power and authority of a regular judge only during the session of court in that county in which the special judge is duly appointed to hold court, G.S.…