Case ID: nc_77/html/0287-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Reads, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JAMES A. CLAYWELL, Administrator, v. W. S. SUDDERTH, Executor.
    
      Jurisdiction — Praetiee.
    Where an action was pending in one County in a Court having jurisdiction, and another action between the same parties for the same cause of action was afterwards instituted in another County ; Held, that the latter was properly dismissed.
    Appeal from an Order of the Clerk of Burke Superior Court, .heard at Chambers on the 1st day of June, 1877, before Furches, J.
    
    The defendant’s counsel moved to dismiss this action upon the ground that there was a similar proceeding pending'^in Caldwell Superior Court, between the same parties, involving the same subject matter, and in which various orders of reference, reports, and decrees have been made. This motion was overruled by the Clerk, and the defendant required to render 'an account, &c. Thereupon the defendant appealed to the Judge of the District who reversed the decision of the Clerk, allowed the motion of the defendant and dismissed the action. Erom which judgment the plaintiff appealed.
    
      Messrs. J. M. Me Corkle and A. W. Maywood, for plaintiff.
    
      Mr. A. G. Avery, for defendant.
   Reads, J.

The pendency of the action between the same parties for the same cause in another County, and in another Court having jurisdiction, is a good defence to this action, as it avoids multiplicity of suits.

There is no error. This will be certified.

Per Curiam. Judgment affirmed.