Haddock v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “While better practice dictates that parties and their attorneys sign a consent judgment, signatures of parties or their attorneys is not necessary if consent is made to appear. Stanley v. Cox, 253 N.C. 620 , 117 S.E. 2d 826 (1961). In Gardiner v. May, 172 N.C. 192, 196 , 89 S.E. 955, 957 (1916), the court said: “A judgment entered of record, whether in invitum or by consent, is presumed to be regular, and an attorney who consented to it is presumed to have acted in good faith and to have had the necessary authority from his client and not to have betrayed his confidence, or to have sacrificed his right.” The authority of a party’s attorney is presumed when he professes to represent the party. ... [Citations omitted.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 51 N.C. App. 690 - Nickels v. Nickels