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HUNSUCKER v. HIGH POINT BENDING & CHAIR CO.

No. 310.

75 S.E.2d 768 (1953)

237 N.C. 559

HUNSUCKER v. HIGH POINT BENDING & CHAIR CO. et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 29, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eddy S. Merritt and Patrick & Harper, Hickory, for plaintiff Orvin O. Hunsucker, appellee.

Thomas P. Pruitt, Hickory, E. S. Delaney, Jr. and A. Y. Arledge, Raleigh, for original defendant Carolina Power & Light Co., appellant.

Jones & Small, Charlotte and Sigmon & Sigmon, Newton, for additional defendant Herman-Sipe & Co., appellee.

Jones & Small, Charlotte, for the additional defendant United States Casualty Co., appellee.

ERVIN, Justice.

It is advisable to note at the outset certain well settled rules of the common law which were accorded full recognition in this State before the adoption of the Workmen's Compensation Act. G.S. § 97-1 et seq.

Under the common law, an injured person can sue any one or all of several joint tort-feasors whose negligent acts or omissions unite to produce his injury. Barber v. Wooten, 234 N.C. 107,

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