DENNY v. COLEMAN

No. 594.

95 S.E.2d 352 (1956)

245 N.C. 90

Mary Alice DENNY, Guardian of the Estate of Louise Huffines Denny, Minor, and Mary Alice Denny, Individually, v. R. C. COLEMAN, Sr., R. C. Coleman, Jr., Joe Coleman, C. L. Coleman and Mrs. Harriet L. Sikes, Trading and Doing Business as Greensboro Tobacco Warehouse Company, and J. F. Fuqua, also known as J. T. Fuqua.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 28, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Joyner, Jr., Greensboro, for appellants.

Chas. M. Ivey, Jr., Greensboro, for appellees.


DENNY, Justice.

A plaintiff may sue joint tort-feasors either jointly or separately. McIntosh, North Carolina Practice and Procedure, 2nd Edition, Volume 1, section 584, page 293; Charnock v. Taylor, 223 N.C. 360, 26 S.E.2d 911, 148 A.L.R. 1126; Godfrey v. Tidewater Power Co., 223 N.C. 647, 27 S.E.2d 736, 149 A.L.R. 1183; Jones v. Otis Elevator Co., 231 N.C. 285, 56 S.E.2d 684.

McIntosh, supra...

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