ELLINGTON v. BRADFORD

No. 457.

86 S.E.2d 925 (1955)

242 N.C. 159

Helen Gayle ELLINGTON, by her Next Friend, Myrtle Ellington, v. Oran BRADFORD and Sanders Motor Company.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 20, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lassiter, Leager & Walker, by Wm. C. Lassiter, Raleigh, for defendants-appellants.

Bunn & Bunn, by Thomas D. Bunn, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellee.


HIGGINS, Justice.

This appeal challenges the right of a minor child to recover medical bills as an element of damages in its action for personal injuries negligently inflicted. The mother instituted this action as next friend. The complaint alleges she is a widow but is silent as to whether the father died before or after the child received the injuries, in the treatment of which the bills were incurred.

In case of injury to an infant by wrongful act, a cause...

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