Kraemer v. Moore

BRASWELL, Judge.

The present appeal raises the novel question of whether a licensed automobile dealer becomes the insurer of an individual to whom he loans a dealer tag. The trial court, by granting the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, ruled that use of the dealer tag did not make the defendant an automobile liability insurance carrier. We must agree.

On Sunday, 6 May 1979, the plaintiff was walking across the Pamlico River Bridge near Washington, North Carolina, on Highway 17 in a southerly direction. Charles Toler, in a 1965 Chevrolet pickup truck, drove across the bridge in a…