Tanner v. State Department of Correction

200 S.E.2d 350 (1973)

19 N.C. App. 689

Samuel TANNER

v.

STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION and Travelers Insurance Company.

No. 7310IC714.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

November 14, 1973.

Vaughan S. Winborne, Raleigh, for plaintiff appellant.

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan, by Assoc. Atty. E. Thomas Maddox, Jr., Raleigh, for State Department of Correction.

BALEY, Judge.

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