Rymer v. ESTATE OF SORRELLS, BY SORRELLS

WYNN, Judge.

The facts of this case arise from the same accident addressed by our decision of Trantham v. Estate of Sorrells, 121 N.C. App. 611, 468 S.E.2d 401 (1996), disc. review denied, 343 N.C. 311, 472 S.E.2d 82 (1996):

On 26 January 1991, . . . Tina Trantham visited a bar in Haywood County where she met Cynthia Rymer and agreed to spend the night at her house. They rode together in Ms. Rymer’s car which was driven by defendant-decedent, Ralph Henry Sorrells. Ms. Rymer had asked him to drive because she had consumed too much alcohol and Mr. Sorrells had represented that he had consumed…