1929_public laws_51_2
CHAPTER 50 AN ACT TO CLARIFY SECTION 5 OF CHAPTER 66, PUB- LIC LAWS OF 1927, RELATING TO SUMMONS IN SPE- CIAL PROCEEDINGS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the following clause in section five of chapter sixty-six, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, be stricken out: The summons shall command the officer to summons the defendant to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court on a day named in the summons, to answer the complaint or petition of the plaintiff, and the following substituted in lieu thereof: The summons shall command the officer to summons the defendant or defendants to appear and answer the complaint of the plaintiff within thirty days after its service upon the defendant or defendants, and must contain a notice stating in substance that if the defendant or defendants fail to answer the complaint within the time specified, plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint.