Trantham v. Estate of Sorrells Ex Rel. Sorrells

WYNN, Judge.

On 26 January 1991, plaintiff Tina Trantham visited a bar in Haywood County where she met Cynthia Rymer and agreed to spend the night at her house. They rode together in Ms. Rymer’s car which was driven by defendant-decedent, Ralph Henry Sorrells. Ms. Rymer had asked him to drive because she had consumed too much alcohol and Mr. Sorrells had represented that he had consumed only two beers.

Ms. Rymer rode in the front passenger seat, and Ms. Trantham and a male friend of Mr. Sorrells’ rode in the back seat. During the course of the drive from Waynesville towards Canton on Interstate…