Case Name: EAST CAROLINA LUMBER COMPANY v. PAMLICO COUNTY; WARREN LAND AND TIMBER COMPANY, Incorporated; H. RATCLIFF TURNER, Trustee; J. R. PASCHALL, and T. D. WARREN, JR., Receiver
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1959-09-23
Citations: 250 N.C. 686
Docket Number: 
Parties: EAST CAROLINA LUMBER COMPANY v. PAMLICO COUNTY; WARREN LAND AND TIMBER COMPANY, Incorporated; H. RATCLIFF TURNER, Trustee; J. R. PASCHALL, and T. D. WARREN, JR., Receiver.
Judges: PARKER, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 250
Pages: 686–686

Head Matter:
EAST CAROLINA LUMBER COMPANY v. PAMLICO COUNTY; WARREN LAND AND TIMBER COMPANY, Incorporated; H. RATCLIFF TURNER, Trustee; J. R. PASCHALL, and T. D. WARREN, JR., Receiver.
(Filed 23 September, 1959.)
.Appeal by plaintiff from Stevens, J., Regular Judge holding the courts of -the Third Judicial'District, at consent hearing in Chambers, .during February • Term,. 1959, of Craven Superior Court. From JfAMLICO. ’. ....
i, ...Qivil action to remove alleged clouds from title to real estate and to .recover damages for trespass. Demurrers to amended complaint were .sustained and the action dismissed. Plaintiff excepted; and appealed.
, ■ Hugh L. Willcox, Boyce C. McClelland and Jones, Beed & Griffin for plaintiff, appellant.
: 'Barden, Stith ■& McCotter, Ward ■& Tucker, Bodman & Bodman, Norman •& Bodman, Thorp, Spruill, Thorp & Trotter, B. A. Nunn, B. B. Hollowell and B. E. Whitehurst for defendants, appellees.

Opinion:
Pee Cubiam.
This, action was commenced by summons issued August. 12, 1958.
, While different parties defendant and different lands are involved, plaintiff's appeal presents the questions decided in Lumber Co. v. Pamlico County, ante, 681, filed simultaneously herewith. On authority thereof, the portion of the judgment sustaining the demurrers is affirmed, but the portion thereof dismissing the action is erroneous and should -be stricken therefrom. It is so ordered. As so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
Modified and affirmedi.
PARKER, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
Higgins, J., not sitting.