Court Opinion

ID: 9811968
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:34:40.944328+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:23:30.595110
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Clark, J.
This was a proceeding to correct a mistake in a partition under* Tbe Code, sec. 1918, and was transferred *561by tbe clerk to the civil issue docket upon issue joined. In the Superior Court a motion by the plaintiff to remand to the clerk, without tidal of the issue, was denied. A motion for judgment on the ground of insufficient verification of the answer, was met by a counter motion to permit a new verification, which was allowed. Thereupon the plaintiff appealed.
The appeal is premature. The plaintiff should have had his exceptions noted in the record, and on the appeal from the final judgment the rulings excepted to would have come up for review. There is no judgment to appeal from, bnt simply the refusal of a motion to remand and the allowance of a verification.
In Kruger v. Bank, 123 N. C., 16, there was no answer and no time allowed to file answer, or to demur, and the refusal of judgment under such circumstances was the denial of a substantial right given by see. 386, of The Code. Phifer v. Insurance Co., 123 N. C., 410, and Cole v. Boyd, 125 N. C., 496, held that the verification of the complaint being insufficient, a judgment by default final should be corrected into default and inquiry, but it was not held that the Court could not permit a proper verification. As was said by Merrimon, J., in Grant v. Reese, 90 N. C., 3, “Slight attention to the decisions of the Court would prevent miscarriages like the present and facilitate the administration of justice.”
Appeal dismissed.