Wrenn v. Byrd

GREENE, Judge.

Carolyn M. Wrenn (plaintiff) appeals from the trial court’s 11 October 1994 order which granted summary judgment for Jesse Randall Byrd, M.D. (defendant) on plaintiffs negligent infliction of emotional distress claim. Defendant cross-assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to exclude plaintiff’s expert testimony regarding her severe emotional distress.

On 4 September 1989, George T. Wrenn (Wrenn) became ill and was taken by plaintiff, his wife of twenty-four years, to the emergency room at the Maria Parham Hospital (Hospital) in Vance County, North Carolina. Wrenn…