68 N.C. App. 491 | N.C. Ct. App. | 1984
This is yet another in the series of vexatious collateral attacks on a corporate receivership. The factual background for this action is set forth in Hudson v. All Star Mills, Inc., 68 N.C. App. 447, 315 S.E. 2d 514, disc. rev. denied, 311 N.C. 755, — S.E. 2d
All Star Industries, Inc. is currently involved in a receivership action in Stanly County Superior Court. This is an attempt by plaintiff to circumvent these proceedings. In Hall v. Shippers Express, 234 N.C. 38, 65 S.E. 2d 333, pet. to reh. dismissed, 234 N.C. 747, 66 S.E. 2d 640 (1951) our supreme court held that when a receivership court has jurisdiction over a matter the only remedy is through the receivership proceedings. In Hall the court, in addressing an attack on a receivership by creditors, said: “[T]he court being one of competent jurisdiction in receivership proceedings, and having acquired jurisdiction of the parties and the subject matter in controversy, it may not be interfered with by any other court of co-ordinate authority.’’
Plaintiffs suit alleging a failure to collect properly the funds owed to All Star Industries, Inc., is clearly a collateral attack on the receivership court’s jurisdiction; therefore, it is not proper and the trial court correctly dismissed the action.
Even if plaintiff could have properly filed the action, the pleadings reveal two further bars to recovery. First, plaintiff is attempting to sue the federal bankruptcy trustees and their attorneys in state court. This they could not do. Secondly, plaintiff is attempting to bring an action for failure to prosecute an action to recover the debt when the public record clearly shows that an action to collect the alleged debt is now pending.
Having determined that this action is an impermissible attack on the receivership court’s jurisdiction, we, therefore, hold that the trial court’s judgment must be and hereby is affirmed.
