Watson v. North Carolina Department of Correction

MORRIS, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff appellants first assign error to the Commission’s striking Deputy Commissioner Denson’s conclusion of law No. 3, which concluded that Deputy Director of Prisons, W.L. Kautzky was negligent “in that he improperly maintained polyurethane mattresses in the Unit which he knew were highly inflammable and presented a hazard to anyone exposed to a burning mattress, when he could reasonably foresee that fires would be intentionally set by inmates to those mattresses”, contending that the greater weight of the evidence reveals negligence as a matter of law. Plaintiffs did…