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  "name": "PATRICIA LYON MYERS v. WOODROW H. MYERS",
  "name_abbreviation": "Myers v. Myers",
  "decision_date": "1983-04-19",
  "docket_number": "No. 825DC181",
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    "id": 14983,
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    "judges": [
      "Judges Wells and Braswell concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "PATRICIA LYON MYERS v. WOODROW H. MYERS"
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "VAUGHN, Chief Judge.\nPlaintiff filed this action for absolute divorce on 8 October 1981. Plaintiff also sought distribution of marital property under G.S. 50-20.\nDefendant answered and, among other things, sought to have the action dismissed because of the pendency of a prior action filed by him on 15 July 1981 in the District Court of Onslow County. The prior action is said to involve substantially the same parties, subject matter, issues and relief sought so that a judgment in the first action would support a plea of res judicata in the present action.\nThe judge denied defendant\u2019s \u201cplea in abatement\u201d and motion to dismiss. He also set out certain conclusions of law going to the merits of the defense alleged.\nThe appeal is from an interlocutory order and must, therefore, be dismissed. The merits of the conclusions of law set out in the order are, of course, not before us.\nAppeal dismissed.\nJudges Wells and Braswell concur.",
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        "author": "VAUGHN, Chief Judge."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Nichols, Caffrey, Hill, Evans and Murrelle, by Charles E. Nichols, William W. Jordan and Reid C. Adams, Jr., for plaintiff appellee.",
      "Ellis, Hooper, Warlick, Waters and Morgan, by Lana S. War lick, for defendant appellant."
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    "head_matter": "PATRICIA LYON MYERS v. WOODROW H. MYERS\nNo. 825DC181\n(Filed 19 April 1983)\nAppeal and Error \u00a7 6.6\u2014 prior action pending \u2014 denial of dismissal \u2014 premature appeal\nDefendant had no right of immediate appeal of an interlocutory order denying defendant\u2019s motion to dismiss plaintiffs divorce action on the ground of the pendency of a prior action filed by defendant against plaintiff in another county.\nAPPEAL by defendant from Lambeth, Judge. Order entered 19 November 1981 in District Court, PENDER County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 10 January 1983.\nNichols, Caffrey, Hill, Evans and Murrelle, by Charles E. Nichols, William W. Jordan and Reid C. Adams, Jr., for plaintiff appellee.\nEllis, Hooper, Warlick, Waters and Morgan, by Lana S. War lick, for defendant appellant."
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