Even though defendant failed to stop at a stop sign just before plaintiff – who had the right-of-way – T-boned him, since plaintiff failed to brake after she surmised that defendant would not stop for the stop sign, the trial ...
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Read More »Holding: Where an unsecured carpet flew out of the back of defendant’s truck, and where plaintiff swerved to avoid the carpet as it lay in the roadway, the trial court properly instructed the jury on the sudden emergency doctrine. We ...
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Read More »Oates v. Parker (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-082-17, 10 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Sampson County Superior Court (Phyllis Gorham, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Nearly three years after an auto accident, plaintiff served process on the driver’s father (Phillip ...
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Read More »Mauney v. Carroll (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-421-16, 8 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) Appealed from Burke County Superior Court (Yvonne Mims-Evans, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though plaintiff did not own the Porsche he was driving when defendant allegedly damaged it, ...
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Read More »Allmond v. Goodnight (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-121-16, 8 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court (Richard Boner, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where a jury found that the defendant-state trooper was chasing a speeding car when he ...
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Read More »Holt v. North Carolina Department of Transportation (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-039-16, 45 pp.) (Linda McGee, C.J.) (Rick Elmore, J., dissenting) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. Holding: Although a drag race between two cars on Highway 49 was a ...
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Read More »State v. Hutchens (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-005-16, 5 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) Appealed from Burke County Superior Court (Anderson Cromer, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Defendant, who had been treating his diabetic condition for 16 years, suffered low blood sugar ...
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Read More »Ford v. United States (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-04-0511, 14 pp.) (Richard Voorhees, J.) 5:12-cv-00152; W.D.N.C. Holding: Even though employees of the United States Army Corps of Engineers negligently caused an auto accident, and even though plaintiff was in the vehicle ...
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Read More »Miller v. Holloman (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-07-0216, 10 pp.) (Douglas McCullough, J.) Appealed from Hertford County Superior Court (Cy Grant Sr., J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Plaintiff waited until after the hearing on defendant’s summary judgment motion to gather evidence ...
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Read More »A federal jury in North Carolina awarded a South Carolina man $275,000—and his wife $25,000—in compensation for a car accident that occurred when another driver lost control of her vehicle and crossed the median while driving along Interstate 95 in ...
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