7 N.C. App. 36 - White v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. ““This leaves us with the proposition of whether the withdrawal by the plaintiff of the ‘further reply’ constituted a revocation of the ratification. The answer is no. In Norwood v. Lassiter, 132 N.C. 52 , 43 S.E. 509 , it is said: ‘When a party has the right to ratify or reject, he is put thereby to his election, and he must decide, once and for all, what he will do, and when his election is once made it immediately becomes irrevocable. This is an elementary principle. Austin v. Stewart, 126 N.C. 525 .’ See also Breckenridge, ‘Ratification in North Carolina’, 18 N.C. L. Rev. 308 . Although the ‘further reply’ had been withdrawn as a pleading, it was proper for Judge Bundy to consider it in making his findings of fact and conclusions of law. Davis v. Morgan, 228 N.C. 78 , 44 S.E. 2d 593 (1947).” White v. Perry, 7 N.C. App. 36 , 171 S.E. 2d 56 (1969).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 30 N.C. App. 393 - Fowler v. McLean