Court Opinion

ID: 8907659
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Date Created: 2022-11-27 02:05:22.173846+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:08:19.322699
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HEDRICK, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs sole contention on appeal is that Judge Snow was without authority to hear defendant’s motion to dismiss “over written objection of the plaintiff/appellant . . . out of county and out of venue.” Our resolution of this issue is controlled by G.S. 7A-192 which in pertinent part provides: “Any district judge may hear motions and enter interlocutory orders in causes regularly calendared for trial or for the disposition of motions, at any session to which the district judge has been assigned to preside.” G.S. 7A-146 provides that the chief district judge has the following duties, among others:
(1) Arranging schedules and assigning district judges for sessions of district courts;
(2) Arranging or supervising the calendaring of noncriminal matters for trial or hearing.
We take judicial notice of the fact that both Cherokee and Swain Counties are in the Thirtieth Judicial District, that the Honorable Robert Leatherwood, III, is the Chief District Judge in that District, and that the Honorable John J. Snow, Jr., is a District Court Judge in that District. The record affirmatively discloses that Scroggs v. Collins, along with numerous other cases, was regularly calendared for hearing at the 5 June 1984 Session of Swain County Non-Jury and Domestic Relations District Court. The court calendar, which is a part of the record on appeal, fur*732ther discloses that Judge Snow was the presiding judge at this session. Also contained in the record is an excerpt from the District and Superior Court Schedule, which reveals that Judge Snow was assigned to Swain County to hear “Non-Jury and Domestic Relations (District Wide)” on 5, 6, 7, and 8 June. Because the record discloses that Judge Snow is a district judge empowered to hear motions in causes regularly calendared for trial or for the disposition of motions at any session to which he is assigned to preside, and that defendant’s motion to dismiss was regularly calendared for disposition at the 5 June 1984 Session of Swain County Non-Jury and Domestic Relations District Court, and that Judge Snow was assigned to preside at this session, we hold that plaintiffs assignment of error is without merit.
Affirmed.
Judges Webb and Whichard concur.