Cooper-Harris, Inc. v. Escalle

MORRIS, Judge.

Plaintiff presents multiple assignments of error, including the failure of the trial court to instruct the jury on foreseeability as an element of proximate cause. We do not deem it necessary *60to discuss all the assignments of error, since the latter assignment of error is dispositive of plaintiff’s appeal.

It is well established that foreseeability is an element of proximate cause in North Carolina. Ratliff v. Power Co., 268 N.C. 605, 151 S.E. 2d 641 (1966); Pettus v. Sanders, 259 N.C. 211, 130 S.E. 2d 330 (1963). See also Byrd, Proximate Cause in North Carolina Tort Law, 51 N.C.…