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226 N.C. 653

39 S.E.2d 812

Campbell v. . Campbell

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided October 30, 1946

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1946-10-30

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 1973

2 state decisions

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Decided 1946-10-30

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Seawell, J.

¶1 The respondent and petitioner are husband and wife, and have for some years lived separate and apart. The petitioner, in a motion purpoi'ting to be made in a pending action, sought to have the *654 respondent subjected to a contempt order for refusing to pay amounts alleged to be due under a prior judgment, inferentially appearing to have been entered in a pending action. Upon tbe hearing Judge Sink dismissed the motion, assigning as his reason that the judgment exhibited (rendered by Rousseau, J., in .1943) was a consent judgment, with no provision for extending its terms or otherwise continuing the jurisdiction of the court; is a contract between the parties not enforceable by a contempt proceeding.

¶2 On this appeal the petitioner did not cause the pleadings in the action in which the consent judgment was entered to be brought up as a part of the record. They are a necessary part of the record, both as determining the character of the action and the jurisdiction and power of the court. G. S., 1-284. For this reason the appellee has moved to dismiss the appeal. The motion is allowed. Allen v. Hammond, 122 N. C., 754, 30 S. E., 16; Mitchell v. Moore, 62 N. C., 281; Ericson v. Ericson, ante, 474, 475-6.

¶3 Appeal dismissed.

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