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PICKARD v. BURLINGTON BELT CORPORATION

No. 68SC209.

162 S.E.2d 601 (1968)

2 N.C. App. 97

Glenn M. PICKARD and wife Mary Ellen Pickard, and Edgar M. Murray v. BURLINGTON BELT CORPORATION, a corporation, Clark Building Company, a corporation, and T. & J. Construction Company, Inc., a corporation. BURLINGTON BELT CORPORATION, Norfolk & Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company, New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Company v. CLARK BUILDING COMPANY, and T. & J. Construction Company, Inc.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 14, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter, by Norman B. Smith and McNeill Smith, Greensboro, for Glenn M. Pickard, Mary Ellen Pickard, and Edgar M. Murray, plaintiffs-appellants (Case No. 1).

Jordan, Wright, Henson & Nichols, by Luke Wright, Greensboro, for Burlington Belt Corporation et al., plaintiffs-appellants (Case No. 2).

Sanders & Holt, by W. Clary Holt, and and R. Chase Raiford, Burlington, for Burlington Belt Corporation, defendant-appellee (Case No. 1).

Hoyle, Boone, Dees & Johnson, by E. E. Boone, Jr., Greensboro, Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell & Hickman, by Hugh L. Lobdell and J. Donnell Lassiter, Charlotte, for Clark Building Co., defendant-appellee (Cases Nos. 1 and 2).

Haworth, Riggs, Kuhn & Haworth, by John Haworth and Walter W. Baker, Jr., High Point, for T. & J. Construction Co., defendant-appellee (Cases Nos. 1 and 2).

BROCK, Judge.

Case No. 1

Without detailing all of the specifications of negligence, the Pickards and Murray seek to hold T. & J. Construction Company liable for damages upon the grounds that it violated G.S. § 14-136, that it violated G.S. § 14-140, that it was negligent in burning the field on a windy day, and that it failed to exercise due care in controlling the fire. They seek to hold Clark Building Company liable for damages upon...

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