JOHNSON v. SIMMONS

No. 705SC670.

177 S.E.2d 721 (1970)

10 N.C. App. 113

Edward Forest JOHNSON, By His Next Friend, Edward Daniel Johnson, Now By His Guardian Ad Litem, Doris Blackburn Johnson v. Harold Junior SIMMONS, Tolson and Coleman and Dixie Bedding Company. Edward Daniel JOHNSON, Successor in Interest, Doris Blackburn Johnson v. Harold Junior SIMMONS, Tolson and Coleman and Dixie Bedding Company.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Certiorari Denied February 9, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stevens, Burgwin, McGhee & Ryals, by Ellis L. Aycock, Wilmington, for plaintiff appellants.

Marshall, Williams & Gorham, by Lonnie B. Williams; John F. Crossley, James, James & Crossley, by Robert White Johnson, Wilmington, for defendant appellees.


HEDRICK, Judge.

The plaintiffs bring forth and argue a total of twenty assignments of error which may be grouped into three major contentions.

First, the plaintiffs argue that the court committed prejudicial error by failing to instruct the jury with regard to the doctrine of sudden emergency. The court is required to declare the law and apply the evidence thereto in regard to each substantial and essential feature of the case without any request for special...

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