Legal Opinion

McHorney v. Wooten

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided September 19, 1951Published

1Opinion of the CourtStacy, C. J.

The judgment overruling tlie demurrers will be upheld on authority of what is said in the companion case of Barber v. Wooten, Admx., ante, 107.

This case affords perhaps a clearer, if not a more pronounced, distinction from the Atkins case, 208 N.C. 245, 179 S.E. 889, than does the Barber case. Here, the action is for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s intestate — -the'result of the sum total of all the torts, neglects or defaults of the defendants which culminated in the right given by the “Lord Campbell Act.” G.S. 28-173.

The demurrers were properly overruled.

Affirmed.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Atkins v. . SteedSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1935

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