Carolina Power & Light Co. v. Bowman

The case ought to turn on whether the trial court has followed our former opinion. Instead it has taken a reverse course on the second appeal.

The late Dean MacRae was wont to say to his classes, when some ambiguous answer was given, “You cannot ride two horses going in opposite directions at the same time.” If the venerable dean were living today, he would doubtless erase this aphorism from his mind, for here the Court decides two ways in the same case. True, the majority says not, and uses many words to say it, but let us take a look at the record.

The case has been here before and the “law…