HINSON v. DAWSON

No. 233.

86 S.E.2d 585 (1955)

241 N.C. 714

Annie Jones HINSON, Administratrix of Leonard E. Hinson, Deceased, v. Charles Edward DAWSON and Charles A. Dawson.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Faison Thomson & Son and N. W. Outlaw, Goldsboro for plaintiff, appellant.

Paul B. Edmundson, John S. Peacock, Goldsboro, and Smith, Leach, Anderson & Dorsett, Raleigh, for defendants, appellees.


BOBBITT, Justice.

Plaintiff did not separately state the alleged cause of action for wrongful death and the alleged cause of action for personal injuries between date of injury and death and property damage. While the basis for each is the same wrongful act, the causes of action are separate and distinct. Each should have been alleged as a separate cause of action. The recovery in one is distributable differently from the recovery in the other. Hoke v. Atlantic Greyhound...

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