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  • Wood-Hopkins Contracting Co. v. North Carolina State Ports Authority

    284 N.C. 732 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Feb 25, 1974

    Yates v. Brown, 275 N.C. 634 , 170 S.E. 2d 477 ; Root v. Insurance Co., 272 N.C. 580 , 158 S.E. 2d 829 ; Lester Bros., Inc. v. Thompson Co., 261 N.C. 210 , 134 S.E. 2d 372 ; Trust Co. v. … General Metals v. Manufacturing Co., 259 N.C. 709 , 131 S.E. 2d 360 ; Construction Co. v. Crain and Denbo, Inc., 256 N.C. 110 , 123 S.E. 2d 590 ; Bizzell v. Bizzell, 247 N.C. 590 , 101 S.E. 2d 668 .

    Cited 40 timesPublished
  • McKinney v. North Carolina State Highway Commission

    192 N.C. 670 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Dec 8, 1926

    J\, after stating tbe case: In Latham v. Highway Commission, 191 N. … This circumstance was considered and allowed significance in several actions against municipal or gwasi-municipal boards or corporations, but we have never extended it to tbe State Highway Commission.

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Brittain v. . Mull

    99 N.C. 483 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Feb 5, 1888

    Doyle v. Brown, 72 N. C., 393 . It is true, that, in the order of sale, the case is stated by its title, FS. E. Mull, administrator, &c., plaintiffs, against. … Fanshaw v. Fanshaw, Bus., 166; Armfield v. Moore, Ibid., 157; Skinner v. Moore, 2 D. & B., 138; *492 Pigot v. Davis, 3 Hawks, 25 ; Williams v. Harrington, 11 Ired., 616 ; Marshall v. Fisher, 1 Jones, 111 ; Bender v.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • S & W Realty & Bonded Commercial Agency, Inc. v. Duckworth & Shelton, Inc.

    274 N.C. 243 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Aug 23, 1968

    Cromartie v. Colby, supra; Thompson v. Foster, supra; Lindsey v. Speight, 224 N.C. 453 , 31 S.E. 2d 371 ; Trust Co. v. Goode, supra; Martin v. Holly, supra. … A corporation is required to keep minutes of the proceedings of its shareholders and board of directors. G.S. 55-37. They are the best evidence of its acts. Pegram-West v.

    Cited 23 timesPublished
  • Stephenson v. Bartlett

    358 N.C. 219 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Apr 22, 2004

    Edmisten v. … Carolina Psychology Board to meet annually in Raleigh); N.C.G.S. § 90A-57 (2003) (State Board of Sanitarian Examiners to meet annually in Raleigh); N.C.G.S. § 106-4 (2003) (Board of Agriculture to meet at least twice a year

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • State v. Blakeney

    352 N.C. 287 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Jul 13, 2000

    Not as a rule all of the way across the board.” … Juror Julie Brown (Brown) admitted that she had read an article about defendant in the newspaper at issue in this case.

    Cited 93 timesPublished
  • Southern Distributing Co. v. Carraway

    189 N.C. 420 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Apr 8, 1925

    Bank v. … It is the act of the parties rather than that of the court” —Brown, J., in Belcher v. Cobb, 169 N. C., p. 694. See, also, Harrison v. Dill, 169 N. C., 545 ; Lynch v. Loftin, 153 N. C., 270 ; Henry v. Hilliard, 120 N.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Watkins v. Shaw

    234 N.C. 96 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Jul 17, 1951

    This Court held in the case of Ervin v. … In re Brown’s Estate, 122 Mont. 451 , 206 P. 2d 816 ; Succession of Raborn, 210 La. 1033 , 29 So. 2d 53 ; Hallett v. Bailey, 143 Maine 1 , 54 A. 2d 533 ; In re Myers’ Estate, 359 Pa. 517 , 60 A. 2d 50 ; Mitchell v.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Cheek v. City of Charlotte

    273 N.C. 293 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Mar 20, 1968

    In State v. … State v. Glidden Co., supra at 666, 46 S.E. 2d at 862 . Accord, Motley v. Board of Barber Examiners, 228 N.C. 337 , 45 S.E. 2d 550 .

    Cited 42 timesPublished
  • Jones v. . Jones

    173 N.C. 279 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Apr 4, 1917

    Tbe cases of Everton v. Everton, 50 N. C., 202 , and Miller v. Miller, 89 N. … Page v. Page, 167 N.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • SUGAR CREEK SCHOOL v. Boe

    687 S.E.2d 295 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Nov 5, 2009

    687 S.E.2d 295 (2009) SUGAR CREEK SCHOOL v. BOE, et al. No. 122P09. Supreme Court of North Carolina. November 5, 2009. Robert J. King, III, for Charlotte-Mecklenburg BOE. Richard A. … The following order has been entered on the motion filed on the 4th of May 2009 by Winston Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief: "Motion Dismissed as Moot by order of the Court in

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Commissioners v. . Hall

    177 N.C. 490 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · May 21, 1919

    This has been so fully discussed that it is only necessary to cite a few of the cases: Wilmington v. Bryan , 141 N.C. 679 ; Guilford v. Georgia Co. , 112 N.C. 37 ; Gatling v. Comrs. , 92 N.C. 536 ; Cobb v. … Elizabeth City , 75 N.C. 1 ; Battle v. Thompson , 65 N.C. 406 . In Wilmington v. Bryan , 141 N.C. 675 , Brown, J. , says: `No counterclaim is valid against a demand for taxes,' citing Gatling v. Comrs., supra .

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • State v. Silva

    304 N.C. 122 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Oct 6, 1981

    Each was armed, one with a small silver gun, the other with a large black handgun which had a brown stock and a black barrel. … In State v.

    Cited 52 timesPublished
  • Jones v. Norfolk Southern Railroad

    176 N.C. 260 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Oct 23, 1918

    engineer to use due care to operate the train at a moderate rate of speed, so as to enable his coemployee to board it without undue peril. … In Ry. v.

    Cited 30 timesPublished
  • Newell v. . Green

    169 N.C. 462 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Sep 22, 1915

    Broadfoot v. Fayetteville, 121 N. C., 418 , as to stock running at large, which cited as instances, local prohibition acts, S. v. Joyner, 81 N. C., 354 ; S. v. Stovall, 103 N. C., 416 ; S. v. Barringer, 110 N. … This is fully discussed iu Holton v. Comrs., 93 N. C., 436 , reviewed and approved in Brown v. Comrs., 100 N. C., 98 ; Tate v. Comrs., 122 N. C., 813 .

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Barnett v. Mills

    167 N.C. 576 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Dec 23, 1914

    In Powers v. … The degree of care must be commensurate with the dangerous character of the article”; and the same case is cited by Justice Brown in Wood v. McCabe, 151 N.

    Cited 27 timesPublished
  • Horton v. . Perry

    229 N.C. 319 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Oct 13, 1948

    Brown v. Coble, 76 N. C., 391 ; Logan v. Wallis, 76 N. C., 416 ; Street v. Tuck, 84 N. C., 605 ; Burns v. Williams, 88 N. C., 159 ; Mitchell v. Mitchell, 96 N. C., 14, 17 , 1 S. E., 648 ; Montgomery v. Blades, 217 N. … Cited in Abbitt v. Gregory, 201 N. C., 577, 594 , 160 S. E., 896 , and in Peeples v. R. R., Edwards v. R. R., Kearney v. R. R., 228 N. C., 590 , 46 S. E. (2d), 649 .

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Barnes v. . Utility Co.

    190 N.C. 382 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Nov 4, 1925

    Christman v. Hilliard , 167 N.C. 6 ; Oil Co. v. Hunt , 187 N.C. 157 ; Hanes v. Utilities Co. , 188 N.C. 465 ; Hancock v. Southgate, 186 N.C. 282 ." Lindsey v. Lumber Co. , 189 N.C. 119 ; Nash v. … The trolley wires are up under the side of the weather-boarding.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Wise v. HARRINGTON GROVE COMMUNITY

    357 N.C. 582 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Oct 31, 2003

    Wise v. … HARRINGTON GROVE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC. and Tom Fitzgerald, Tamara James, Dave Becherer, Stewart Joslin, Bill Schultz, and Mike Dalton, in their official capacities as members of the Harrington Grove Community Association Board

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Morris v. Seashore Transportation Co.

    208 N.C. 807 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Nov 20, 1935

    To the same effect is the utterance of Brown, J., in Cullifer v. R. R., 168 N. C., 309 , 84 S. … C., 310 ; Wheeler v. Gibbon, 126 N. C., 811 ; Ray v. R. R., 141 N. C., 84 ; Casada v. Ford, 189 N. C., 744 ; Caudle v. R. R., 202 N. C., 404 . For the reasons given, the judgment must be Reversed.

    Cited 7 timesPublished

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