Reid v. Town of Madison

EAGLES, Chief Judge.

This case presents the question of whether the Town of Madison and its employee are entitled to immunity from plaintiffs’ suit for negligence.

Plaintiffs filed this action on or about 14 September 1998 seeking damages for personal injuries allegedly suffered by Annie Mitchell Reid in a motor vehicle accident and for the subsequent loss of consortium suffered by her husband, James Donald Reid. Plaintiffs alleged that Ms. Reid was driving her automobile on 7 September 1995 in Madison, North Carolina, when she saw one of the defendant Town of Madison’s (“the Town”) garbage…