Legal Opinion
Taylor v. Ashburn
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided November 16, 1993No. 9221SC1266PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREENE, Judge.
Terry Kenneth Ashburn (defendant) appeals from the trial court’s denial of his motion for summary judgment on the grounds of sovereign immunity and public officers’ immunity in James Quentin Taylor’s (plaintiff) negligence action against him.
On 25 September 1989, plaintiff was driving a 1983 Audi automobile on Hawthorne Road in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Around the same time, defendant, a fire engineer, was operating a fire truck owned by the City of Winston-Salem (the City) and was responding to a fire alarm at a high rise housing complex for the elderly. The fire truck…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Mitchell v. ForsythSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Corum v. University of North CarolinaSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1992
- Collingwood v. General Electric Real Estate Equities, Inc.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1989
- Roumillat v. Simplistic Enterprises, Inc.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1992
- Wiggins v. City of MonroeCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1985
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3Cited by77 opinions
- Strickland v. HedrickCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2008
- Davis v. Town of Southern PinesCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1994
- Moore v. EvansCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1996
- Beck v. City of DurhamCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2002
- Schlossberg v. GoinsCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2000
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