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231 N.C. 427

57 S.E.2d 315

Docket No. 450.

In Re Franks'will

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided January 31, 1950.

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1950-01-31

Relies on Johnson v. . R. R. · In Re the Will of Franks · State v. . Dee

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Decided 1950-01-31

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¶1*316 Simms & Simms, Raleigh, for petitioners.

¶2DEVIN and SEAWELL, Judges, considering the petition to rehear.

¶3The petitioners filed with their petition to rehear the affidavits of two persons who had testified at the trial tending to show facts in material respects different from their testimony as it appears in the record of the case on appeal. The affidavits relate to the attestation of the paper writing propounded as the will of the decedent. Upon these affidavits two members of the bar have filed certificates under Rule 44(2) in support of the petition to rehear, basing their action on the suggestion that if petitioners be given opportunity to change the record to conform to these affidavits, a different result would follow.

¶4However, the record of the case which was agreed to by counsel, duly certified below, and filed in this Court as the case on appeal, and upon which, without objection, the cause was argued here, and the decision of this Court rendered, imports verity and is binding upon the Court. State v. Dee, 214 N.C. 509, 199 S.E. 730; Gorham v. Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co., 215 N.C. 195, 1 S.E.2d 569. Hence the affidavits now filed cannot be considered on the petition to rehear. Nor are the matters set out in the affidavits sufficient to come within the rule as to newly discovered evidence set out in Johnson v. Seaboard Air Line R. Co., 163 N.C. 431, 453, 79 S.E. 690, Ann. Cas. 1915B, 598; Bullock v. Williams, 213 N.C. 320, 195 S.E. 791; Utilities Comm. v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp., 224 N.C. 672, 32 S.E.2d 23.

¶5An examination of the petition to rehear, in connection with the decision of this Court heretofore rendered and reported in 231 N.C. 252, 56 S.E.2d 668, fails to disclose any error in law thereon, or matter overlooked.

¶6The petition to rehear is denied.

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