Title: Walker v. City of Charlotte
Citation: 150 S.E.2d 493, 268 N.C. 345
Docket Number: 273
State: north-carolina
Issuer: north-carolina Supreme Court
Date: October 19, 1966

150 S.E.2d 493 (1966) 268 N.C. 345 Rev. James R. WALKER, Jr. v. CITY OF CHARLOTTE and William H. Jamison, Superintendent of Building Inspection of the City of Charlotte. No. 273. Supreme Court of North Carolina. October 19, 1966. *495 James R. Walker, Jr., Statesville, for plaintiff appellant. J. W. Kiser, Henry W. Underhill, Jr., Charlotte, for defendants appellees. PLESS, Justice. Where a justiciable controversy is allegedas is the case herethe authorities are unanimous that demurrer does not lie in a case brought under G.S. §§ 1-253-1-267, the Declaratory Judgment Act. With her usual thoroughness, Sharp, J., speaking for this Court in Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. v. Roberts, 261 N.C. 285, 134 S.E.2d 654, deals with this subject. In that opinion an excerpt from Cabell v. City of Cottage Grove, 170 Or. 256, 130 P.2d 1013, 144 A.L.R. 286, concisely states this rule: We find no exceptions to the above rule. Based, of course, on the premise that a justiciable controversy is stated, the authorities hold: And in 26 C.J.S. Declaratory Judgments § 141, p. 334, we find: The cause is hereby remanded to the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County and the defendant is allowed 30 days from the filing of this opinion in which to answer the Complaint. The Court will thereupon adjudicate the questions presented by appropriate decree. Error and remanded. BOBBITT and SHARP, JJ., concur in result.