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LEWIS v. W. B. LEA TOBACCO COMPANY

No. 238.

132 S.E.2d 877 (1963)

260 N.C. 410

Ruth K. LEWIS, Widow and Next Friend of Michael Ray Lewis, James Elbert Lewis, Alphonso M. Lewis, Children, and Mary Louise Lewis, Child, by her Next Friend, Dora Tillery, Elbert Lewis, Deceased, Employee, v. W. B. LEA TOBACCO COMPANY, Inc., Employer, Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, Carrier.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 30, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Teague, Johnson & Patterson, by Grady S. Patterson, Jr., Raleigh, for defendants, appellants.

No counsel contra.

MOORE, Justice.

The employee, Elbert Lewis, under orders from his employer, Tobacco Company, served as chauffeur, cook and valet for Thomas E. Taylor, office manager for the Tobacco Company, while the latter was on vacation at Nags Head for his own personal pleasure and on no business for the Company. For the purposes of this appeal we assume, but do not decide, that such services to Taylor were performed in the course of Lewis' employment by the Tobacco Company,...

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