Case Name: J. M. BRENDLE v. A. J. REESE et al.
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1894-09
Citations: 115 N.C. 552
Docket Number: 
Parties: J. M. BRENDLE v. A. J. REESE et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 115
Pages: 552–552

Head Matter:
J. M. BRENDLE v. A. J. REESE et al.
Practice — Case on Appeal — Motion to Rem,and — Appeal from an Interlocutory Order —Amendment.
1. Where there is no case on appeal, and the appellant has been in no laches, a motion to remand would be allowed, if a case on appeal were essential.
2. An appeal does not lie from an interlocutory order before final judgment.
3. The granting or refusing an amendment is a matter of discretion, and ' no appeal lies therefrom.
Motion to remand the cause, on the ground that there is no case on appeal.
Messrs. G. 8. Ferguson and J. B. Batchelor, for appellant.
No counsel, contra.

Opinion:
Clark, J.:
The appellant moves to remand the cause because there is no case on appeal, and the Judge (Graves) died before settling the same. This would be true, if it was an appeal in which a case settled is essential, and the appellant has not been guilty of laches. State v. Parks, 107 N. C., 821. But the present case is an appeal from a refusal of leave to amend the answer. No case on appeal was necessary, as there were no facts dehors the record to be set out. Furthermore, no appeal lay at this stage, as it was an interlocutory order, nor indeed at all, as the granting or refusal of the amendment was a matter of discretion. Henry v. Cannon, 86 N. C., 24, and numerous other cases cited in Clark's Code (2d Ed.), pages 564, 565. Appeal Dismissed..