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TAYLOE v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY

No. 21.

127 S.E.2d 238 (1962)

257 N.C. 626

Dr. John C. TAYLOE, Dr. A. R. Peters, Jr., Joseph P. Tunstall, Dr. Sam. H. Williams, Jr., Dr. W. C. Piver, Jr., Dr. Clark Rodman, Dr. David T. Tayloe, Dr. R. G. Silverthorne, and Dr. C. T. Partrick, Partners, Trading and Doing Business as Tayloe Drug Company v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 19, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carter & Ross, Washington, for appellees.

James & Speight, William C. Brewer, Jr., Greenville, for appellant.

DENNY, Chief Justice.

This appeal turns on whether or not the damage to the premises involved in this action resulted from an unavoidable accident within the terms of the plaintiff partnership's lease.

"Accident" is defined as "an unforeseen event, occurring without the will or design of the person whose mere act causes it; an unexpected, unusual, or undesigned occurrence; the effect of an unknown cause, or, the...

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