Amazon Cotton Mills Co. v. Duplan Corp.

Decision Date10 April 1957
Docket NumberNo. 381,381
Citation97 S.E.2d 449,246 N.C. 88
CourtNorth Carolina Supreme Court
PartiesAMAZON COTTON MILLS COMPANY, v. The DUPLAN CORPORATION.

Ratcliff, Vaughn, Hudson, Ferrell & Carter, Winston-Salem, by R. M. Stockton, Jr., Winston-Salem, for defendant, appellant.

James L. Rankin, Chester, Pa., E. T. Bost, Jr., Concord, W. H. Beckerdite, Kannapolis, by Walser & Brinkley, Don A. Walser, Lexington, for plaintiff, appellee.

PER CURIAM.

In the petition to rehear the plaintiff contended this Court committed error in ordering the action dismissed. The reason assigned is that the motion to dismiss was not passed on by the superior court and not the subject of an exceptive assignment here.

This Court's decision was based on the view that the plaintiff stated a defective cause of action which the Court had the power to dismiss ex mero motu. 'If the cause of action, as stated by the plaintiff, is inherently bad, why permit him to proceed further in the case, for if he proves everything that he alleges he must eventually fail in the action.' Maola Ice Cream Co. of North Carolina, Inc., v. Maola Milk & Ice Cream Co., 238 N.C. 317, 77 S.E.2d 910, 916. Upon the authority of the case cited, the petition is

Dismissed.

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  • State ex rel. East Lenoir Sanitary Dist. v. City of Lenoir
    • United States
    • North Carolina Supreme Court
    • October 29, 1958
    ...our duty, ex mero motu, to take note of that fact. Caldlaw, Inc., v. Caldwell, 248 N.C. 235, 102 S.E.2d 829; Amazon Cotton Mills Co. v. Duplan Corp., 246 N.C. 88, 97 S.E.2d 449; Maola Ice Cream Co. v. Maola Milk & Ice Cream Co., 238 N.C. 317, 77 S.E.2d 910; Aiken v. Sanderford, 236 N.C. 760......
  • Bailey v. McGill, 175
    • United States
    • North Carolina Supreme Court
    • December 11, 1957
    ...a defective cause of action against the above named two physicians, the motion by them to dismiss is allowed. Amazon Cotton Mills Co. v. Duplan Corp., 246 N.C. 88, 97 S.E.2d 449; Scott v. Statesville Plywood & Veneer Co., 240 N.C. 73, 81 S.E.2d We are next confronted with the question as to......
  • Beam v. Almond, 194
    • United States
    • North Carolina Supreme Court
    • October 11, 1967
    ...further in the case, for if he proves everything that he alleges he must eventually fail in the action.' Amazon Cotton Mills Co. v. Duplan Corp., 246 N.C. 88, 97 S.E.2d 449; Maola Ice Cream Co. of North Carolina v. Mayola Milk & Ice Cream Co., 238 N.C. 317, 77 S.E.2d It seems apparent from ......
  • Tuwamo v. Tuwamo
    • United States
    • North Carolina Court of Appeals
    • July 19, 2016
    ...ex mero motu. ” Narron v. Union Camp Corp., 81 N.C.App. 263, 267, 344 S.E.2d 64, 67 (1986). See also Amazon Cotton Mills Co. v. Duplan Corp., 246 N.C. 88, 89, 97 S.E.2d 449, 449 (1957) (“ ‘If the cause of action, as stated by the plaintiff, is inherently bad, why permit him to proceed furth......
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