Wells v. French Broad Electric Membership Corp.

VAUGHN, Chief Judge.

We first dispose of two of plaintiffs assignments of error on mootness grounds. Plaintiff assigns error to the trial court’s failure to admit certain evidence relating to loss of production damages, and also assigns error to the submission of the contributory negligence issue to the jury. Because the jury found that the plaintiff was not damaged by defendant’s negligence, both these assignments are rendered moot.

Appellate courts will not decide moot or academic questions, Rice v. Rigsby, 259 N.C. 506, 518, 131 S.E. 2d 469, 477 (1963), and the jury’s answer to one issue…