{
  "id": 8621500,
  "name": "GRACE GOFORTH RIDDLE v. WILLIAM WILDE and ABNER WILDE, HERBERT LUNSFORD and his Guardian Ad Litem, CARL LUNSFORD",
  "name_abbreviation": "Riddle v. Wilde",
  "decision_date": "1958-04-09",
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  "first_page": "210",
  "last_page": "212",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "parties": [
      "GRACE GOFORTH RIDDLE v. WILLIAM WILDE and ABNER WILDE, HERBERT LUNSFORD and his Guardian Ad Litem, CARL LUNSFORD."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PER CuRiam.\nJudge Eroneberger made no ruling as to whether the purported service previously made on Herbert Lunsford and on Carl' Lunsford, guardian ad litem, was sufficient to confer jurisdiction. Instead, he ordered that new process be issued and seryed.\nIf the service previously made was sufficient to confer jurisdiction, the order and service pursuant thereto would not adversely affect ap- ' pellants.\nIf, as appellants contend, the purported service previously made was void, the order for new process, to implement Judge Pless\u2019 order of November 2, 1956, was appropriate; for, under G.S. 1-240, the original defendants, who alleged that, if liable at all, they and Herbert Luns-ford were liable as joint tort-feasors, were entitled, upon motion, \u201cat any time before judgment is obtained,\u201d to \u201chave the other joint tort-feasors (Herbert Lunsford) made parties defendant.\u201d\nThe process ordered by Judge Froneberger, being new process, will have the same status as if it were the first process issued to implement Judge Pless\u2019 order of November 2, 1956. Whether this new process, if served, would be subject to successful attack, either on the ground that the appointment of Carl Lunsford as guardian ad litem is defective or otherwise, would be for consideration in the light of conditions then existing, without prejudice on account of Judge Eroneberger\u2019s order.\nOn account of appellants\u2019 failure to show that they are presently aggrieved by an order adversely affecting any substantial right, their appeal from Judge Eroneberger\u2019s said order is dismissed.\nAppeal dismissed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "PER CuRiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Williams & Williams and Bruce J. Brown for defendants Herbert Lunsford and Carl Lunsford, appellants.",
      "Uzzell & DuMont for defendants William Wilde and Abner Wilde, appellees."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "GRACE GOFORTH RIDDLE v. WILLIAM WILDE and ABNER WILDE, HERBERT LUNSFORD and his Guardian Ad Litem, CARL LUNSFORD.\n(Filed 9 April, 1958)\nAppeal and Error \u00a7 3\u2014\nUpon special appearance by additional defendants joined under G.S. 1-240, and motion by them ito dismiss for want >o\u00a3 valid .service, tbe court ordered new process to. be served upon them. Held,: The judgment did noit attempt to adjudicate tihie validity of tlie previous service, nor was .tbe efficacy of tbe new process then justicable, and .therefore \u00a1the order affected no substantial right of .the .additional defendants and their appeal therefrom is dismissed.\nAppeal by Herbert Lunsford .and Carl Lunsford, guardian ad litem, from Froneberger, J., October Term 1957, of Madison.\nThis appeal is from Judge Erooieberger\u2019s order of October 30, 1957, \"That a new summons be issued by the Clerk of the Superior Oourt pi Madison County, and that said summons, together with a copy of the original summons, complaint, answer, cross-action, order dated November 2, 1956, making said/ Herbert Lunsford ia party defendant in the above-entitled action, and a copy of this order, be served up'ion the said Herbert Lunsford and his Guardian Ad Litem, Oari Lunsford.\u201d (Our italics)\nOn May 23, 1956, on a public highway in Madison County, plaintiff sustained personal injuries when the oar in which .she wias riding, then operated by Herbert Lunsford, 'Collided with a oar opieratedi by William Wilde.\nOn July 26, 1956, plaintiff instituted this action against William Wilde and Abner Wilde, the father of William Wilde and the owner of the ciar he was operating.\nThe Wildes 'answered, alleging, inter alia, a cross-action against Herbert Lunsford for contribution and moving that Herbert Lunsford be joined as >aa additional defendant under G.\u2019S. 1-240.\nOn November 2, 1956, Judge Pless made Herbert Lunsford a party defendant and 'ordered that process be served bn him.\nOn June 24, 1957, Judge Nettles, 'based on recitals that the only prior service on Herbert Lunsford, to wit, service on April 27, 1957, wias defective because \u201cmot completed upon said defendant within 90 days from the date of its issuance (January 19, 1957) or from the date of the last notation on said 'Summons (no notation),\u201d appointed Carl Lunsford, Ms father, as guardian ad litem for Herbert Lunsford., \u2022and ordered that a new summons be issued for service upon Herbert Lunsford and upon. Carl Lunsford, his gua|rdiiam ad litem.\nPursuant to Judge Nettles\u2019 order, a, summons issued on July 1, 1957, for Card Lunsford, was served July 9,1957; a separate summons issued July 1, 1957, for Herbert Lunsford, was returned unserved; another summons issued July 13, 1957, for Herbert Lunsford, bearing the notation \u201calias summons,\u201d was returned unserved; 'another summons issued August 23,1957, for Herbert Lunisford, bearing the notation \u201calia's summons,\u201d was served on Herbert Lunsford on August 28, 1957, together with copies of \u201corders, complaint -.and answer. . . .\u201d\nGarl Lunsford, guardian ad litem, 'and Herbert Lunisford, under special appearances, separately challenged the validity of the purported service. Oari Lunsford, guardian aid litem, moved that the purported service on him be quashed. Each moved' \u201cThat the summons and cross-action relating to Herbert Lunsford!, be abated and dismissed.\u201d\nConfronted by this state of affairs, Judge Eronaberger signed the order of October 30, 1957, which, in pertinent part, is quoted above.\nHerbert Lunsford, and Carl Lunsford, guardian ad litem, excepted and appealed. ,\nWilliams & Williams and Bruce J. Brown for defendants Herbert Lunsford and Carl Lunsford, appellants.\nUzzell & DuMont for defendants William Wilde and Abner Wilde, appellees."
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  "file_name": "0210-01",
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