Legal Opinion

Shaw v. Burton

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided September 17, 1991No. 8918SC1401PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

PHILLIPS, Judge.

The only questions of substance presented for our determination are whether the court erred in directing verdicts against plaintiffs’ claims based upon the second accident. Other questions are posed but they either have no basis or are superfluous. Plaintiffs’ arguments that the court erred in refusing to instruct the jury *117as to their damages in the second accident and the negligence of defendants Burton and the oil company in causing it serve no purpose; for if the verdict directed in the defendants’ favor is upheld the refusals to instruct were proper, and if it is not a new…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Exum v. BoylesSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1968
  2. Garmon v. ThomasSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1955
  3. Price v. MillerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1967

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Privett v. YarboroughCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2004

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