Case Name: NEW HANOVER COUNTY and C. R. MORSE, City-County Tax Collector, v. ABEL HOLMES and Wire, If Married
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1952-11-26
Citations: 236 N.C. 565
Docket Number: 
Parties: NEW HANOVER COUNTY and C. R. MORSE, City-County Tax Collector, v. ABEL HOLMES and Wire, If Married.
Judges: Parker, J., took no part in tbe consideration or decision of tbis ease.
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 236
Pages: 565–566

Head Matter:
NEW HANOVER COUNTY and C. R. MORSE, City-County Tax Collector, v. ABEL HOLMES and Wire, If Married.
(Filed 26 November, 1952.)
1. Appeal and Error § 31c—
Where judgment is rendered during the December Term of a Superior Court, an appeal to the following Fall Term of the Supreme Court is too late.
2. Taxation § 40h: Dower § 1—
Inchoate dower cannot deprive the purchasers at a tax foreclosure from the present right of possession.
3. Trial § 13: Appeal and Error § 2—
Additional evidence may not be introduced after judgment, and no appeal lies from the denial of a party’s motion to be permitted to introduce such evidence.
Parker, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
Appeal by defendants from Burgwyn, Special Judge, February Term, 1952, New HaNOver.
Appeal dismissed.
Tax foreclosure action in which both defendants were duly served with summons. They failed to answer and the property was duly sold. Final order was entered 27 April 1951. The cause was heard on two different occasions on motions made by defendants after final judgment, and also on motion of the purchasers for a writ of possession. The defendants excepted to the orders entered and appealed.
G. G. Mclntire and Isaac C. Wright for plaintiff appellees.
Rodgers & Rodgers for defendant appellants.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
At tbe December Term 1951, Burney, J., denied tbe male defendant's motion to vacate tbe decree of foreclosure and tbe deed executed pursuant thereto. Tbe appeal from tbis order comes too late. Jones v. Jones, 232 N.C. 518, 61 S.E. 2d 335.
At tbe February Term, 1952, Burg'wyn, Special Judge, entered an order directing that a writ of possession issue. Feme defendant excepted. Tbe exception is without merit. Feme defendant's inchoate right of dower, if not barred by tbe judgments heretofore entered, does not deprive tbe purchasers of tbe present right of possession.
On 17 May 1952, Morris, J., denied defendants' motion to be permitted to supplement tbe testimony at tbe prior bearing by filing additional documentary evidence "for further consideration." No appeal lies from said order. Indeed, tbe judge was without authority to augment tbe evidence at that stage of tbe proceedings.
Tbe defendants have bad their day in court. They were accorded a full opportunity to be beard before tbe order of foreclosure was entered. Their present unfortunate predicament is due to their own negligence from which tbe Court can afford them no relief.
Appeal dismissed.
Parker, J., took no part in tbe consideration or decision of tbis ease.