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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 timesPublishedMcKinney 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 timesPublished99 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 timesPublishedS & 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 timesPublished358 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 timesPublished352 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 timesPublishedSouthern 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 timesPublished234 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 timesPublished273 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 timesPublished173 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 timesPublished687 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 timesPublished177 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 timesPublished304 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 timesPublishedJones 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 timesPublished169 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 timesPublished167 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 timesPublished229 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 timesPublished190 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 timesPublishedWise 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 timesPublishedMorris 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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