Overton v. Purvis

EAGLES, Chief Judge.

Defendant, William Robert Purvis, appeals from judgment entered in Pitt County Superior Court upon a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff, Richard Allen Overton, in a negligence action brought by plaintiff after he was hit by an automobile driven by defendant.

The evidence at trial tended to establish the following. During the early morning hours of 7 September 1996, plaintiff and several other individuals were fox hunting near Falkland, North Carolina. Shortly after 6:00 a.m., the hunters released approximately forty hunting dogs into a field, roughly one quarter of a mile…