Alliance Company v. State Hospital at Butner

The question involved on this appeal, as stated in briefs of appellant and of appellee, substantially the same, as framed by appellant, reads: “Is an inmate of the Umstead Youth Center, who performs duties assigned to him, a State employee within the meaning *332of tbe language used in tbe Tort Claims Act, codified as Article 31 of Chapter 143 of tbe General Statutes of North Carolina?”

In this connection it is noted that tbe Tort Claims Act, Section One of Chapter 1059, of 1951 Session Laws, codified as above stated, constitutes tbe North Carolina Industrial Commission a court for tbe purpose of…