Connelly Ex Rel. McBride v. Family Inns of America, Inc.

LEWIS, Judge.

This case arose from an armed robbery that took place at the Family Inn Motel in Rowland, North Carolina (“Family Inn”). On 19 July 1994, plaintiffs Mary Ellen Connelly, her son, Brian Connelly, and his grandmother, Nellie Lockett, were traveling south on Interstate Highway 95 en route to Florida for a family vacation from their home in Pennsylvania. They obtained lodging for the night at the Family Inn, located at the intersection of Interstate 95 and U.S. Highway 301 (“1-95, U.S. 301 intersection”). The North Carolina-South Carolina border runs through this intersection. The…