Gregory v. Penland

GEER, Judge.

Defendant, the Administratrix of the Estate of Leon Reece Penland, Jr., 1 appeals from an order of the trial court denying her motion for summary judgment and granting summary judgment to plaintiffs Vivian and Michael Harrison Gregory, Jill Ann and William Bryan Ward, and Shirley and Joseph Snapp with respect to defendant’s affirmative defenses of res judicata and collateral estoppel. As the issues presented in these separate appeals involve common questions of law, we have consolidated the appeals for purposes of decision.

Defendant contends that a finding of the North Carolina…