Court Opinion

ID: 9810275
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:45:16.595816+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:33.124073
License: Public Domain

Barnhill, J.,
concurring: "While the complaint is filled with “wickedly,” “maliciously,” “unlawfully,” “confederate,” “conspire,” “conspirators,” “conspiracy,” and other evil-sounding words, this case comes to this: The judge, in an action in which plaintiff had made a general appearance, issued an order restraining plaintiff from acting as substitute clerk of the Superior Court of Madison County. Plaintiff, considering the order void, ignored it. He was cited for contempt. After hearing he was adjudged in contempt and imprisoned. Thereafter, on motion of defendants here, plaintiffs in that action, a voluntary judgment of nonsuit was entered, and so plaintiff did not prosecute his appeal from the order of Nettles, J. He was released from jail on verbal order of Nettles, J. Now he seeks to hold defendants liable in damages for his incarceration under order of the judge, without any allegation of perjury or fraud or deception practiced upon the judge by means of which he was induced to enter the order of imprisonment.
So then, it is apparent the complaint fails to state a cause of action. The only thing which needs to be heard is a demurrer, Williams v. McRackan, 186 N. C., 381, 119 S. E., 746. It makes very little difference which county shall be the scene of that hearing. Hence the order of the judge removing the cause to Macon County, even if erroneous — and it is not — has not materially prejudiced defendants.