Title: Doub v. Doub

State: north-carolina

Issuer: North Carolina Supreme Court

Document:

326 S.E.2d 259 (1985)
Anna M. DOUB
v.
Eugene M. DOUB.
No. 364PA84.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.
February 27, 1985.
*260 Morrow & Reavis by John F. Morrow and Clifton R. Long, Jr., Winston-Salem, for plaintiff-appellee.
Bruce C. Fraser, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellant.
PER CURIAM.
Except as modified herein, we affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals. That court correctly held that our decision in Walters v. Walters, 307 N.C. 381, 298 S.E.2d 338 (1983), did not apply to the judgment at issue. However, the Court of Appeals fell into error when it stated by way of dicta:
Doub v. Doub, 68 N.C.App. 718, 720, 315 S.E.2d 732, 734 (emphasis added).
We disapprove and disavow this statement by the Court of Appeals.
We reaffirm our holding in Walters v. Walters:
307 N.C. at 386, 298 S.E.2d  at 342.
The parties to a consent judgment controlled by Walters do not have an election *261 to enforce such judgment by contempt or to proceed in an independent action in contract.
The decision of the Court of Appeals is
MODIFIED AND AFFIRMED.
VAUGHN, J., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.