Court Opinion

ID: 3651347
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:05:55.015758+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:16:31.382337
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STACY, J., not sitting. *Page 244 
Civil action, heard on motion to consolidate the present action with another now appearing on the docket of the Superior Court of New Hanover County, in which J. P. Temple is plaintiff and the Eades Hay Company defendant. The present is a suit by plaintiff against defendant to recover certain moneys collected by defendant bank on drafts sent to said defendant by plaintiff bank. The suit of Temple v. Eades Hay Co. is one to recover damages for breach of contract in sale of hay by defendant to said Temple, and in which said suit this same money collected by defendant bank was attached as the property of the Eades Hay Company. In the Temple case there has been a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and appropriating the money attached in satisfaction of plaintiff's recovery. Appeal taken in that case and apparently perfected. Motion to consolidate denied, and defendant bank excepted and appealed.
There is doubt if any order of consolidation should be made with the suit of Temple v. Hay Co., ante, 239, after verdict and judgment in the latter case. As now advised, we concur in his Honor's view, that an order of consolidation could not be made with a cause which was in the Supreme Court by a perfected appeal, and must hold, therefore, that the present appeal be dismissed without prejudice. Since appeal taken, it appearing, however, that a new trial has been ordered in the suit of Temple v. HayCo., supra, we consider it right to say that there should be a consolidation of these two suits, to the end that the court thus acquiring full jurisdiction, both of the res and person of the claimant, may be able to dispose of the entire controversy and enter judgment awarding this money to the rightful owner, and thus protect defendant bank, which is without fault in the premises, from a double liability for the same fund.
Appeal dismissed.
   STACY, J., not sitting. *Page 245