Walker v. City of Charlotte, 273
Decision Date | 19 October 1966 |
Docket Number | No. 273,273 |
Citation | 268 N.C. 345,150 S.E.2d 493 |
Parties | Rev. James R. WALKER, Jr. v. CITY OF CHARLOTTE and William H. Jamison, Superintendent of Building Inspectionof the City of Charlotte. |
Court | North Carolina Supreme Court |
James R. Walker, Jr., Statesville, for plaintiff appellant.
J. W. Kiser, Henry W. Underhill, Jr., Charlotte, for defendants appellees.
Where a justiciable controversy is alleged--as is the case here--the authorities are unanimous that demurrer does not lie in a case brought under G.S. §§ 1--253--1--267, the Declaratory Judgment Act. With her usual thoroughness, Sharp, J., speaking for this Court in Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. v. Roberts, 261 N.C. 285, 134 S.E.2d 654, deals with this subject. In that opinion an excerpt from Cabell v. City of Cottage Grove, 170 Or. 256, 130 P.2d 1013, 144 A.L.R. 286, concisely states this rule:
We find no exceptions to the above rule. Based, on course, on the premise that a justiciable controversy is stated, the authorities hold:
22 Am.Jur. 956, Declaratory Judgments, Sec. 91.
And in 26 C.J.S. Declaratory Judgments § 141, p. 334, we find:
'(T)he general rule is that where plaintiff ...
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