Court of Appeals of North Carolina April 24, 1968, 68SC25 (Wm. Muirhead Construction Co. v. Housing Authority)

Britt, J.

Several of appellant’s assignments of error relate to the admission of evidence by the trial judge, sitting as judge and jury.

In a trial before the judge, sitting without a jury, the ordinary rules as to the competency of evidence applied in a trial before a jury are to some extent relaxed, for the reason that the judge with knowledge of the law is able to eliminate from the testimony