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DUPREE v. BATTS

No. 8.

170 S.E.2d 918 (1969)

Theodore Jefferson DUPREE, Sr., Administrator of the Estate of Theodore Jefferson Dupree, Jr. v. Buren Thomas BATTS and Minerva Parker Batts and the Chrysler Corporation.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 10, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tharrington & Smith, by J. Harold Tharrington and Roger W. Smith, Earle R. Purser, Raleigh, for plaintiff.

Smith, Leach, Anderson & Dorsett, by John H. Anderson, Young, Moore & Henderson, by Carter G. Mackie, Raleigh, for defendants Buren Thomas Batts and Minerva Parker Batts.

Teague, Johnson, Patterson, Dilthey & Clay, by I. Edward Johnson, Raleigh, for defendant Chrysler Corporation.

HIGGINS, Justice.

The plaintiff's evidence disclosed that on and prior to December 22, 1964, Buren Thomas Batts, age 19, lived and worked as an automobile mechanic in Raleigh. At all times pertinent to this controversy his mother, Minerva Parker Batts, resided in Pender County, more than 100 miles from Raleigh.

On the above date, Buren Thomas Batts purchased from O'Neal Motor Company of Raleigh the Plymouth automobile involved in the accident. Because of his...

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