Legal Opinion
Estate of Mullis Ex Rel. Dixon v. Monroe Oil Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided October 9, 1998No. 426PA97PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORR, Justice.
This case arises out of a drunk-driving accident in which four young people were tragically killed. On 30 April 1993, the four persons involved, Otis Blount, twenty; Dwaine Darby, nineteen; Melissa Mullis, fifteen; and Patricia Teel, eighteen, decided to meet several other individuals at a local teen nightclub in Monroe between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. Before meeting at the Monroe club, Blount bought some liquor for himself and two other individuals from a store operated by defendant City of Monroe Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control (“Monroe ABC”). Blount returned to the same Monroe…
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