KEENER v. LITSINGER

No. 7119SC402.

181 S.E.2d 781 (1971)

11 N.C. App. 590

Elvie M. KEENER v. Glenn M. LITSINGER and W. R. Grace & Company, a corporation.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 23, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bedford W. Black, Kannapolis, and Clarence E. Horton, Jr., Concord, for plaintiff appellant.

K. Michael Koontz, Concord, for defendant appellees.


CAMPBELL, Judge.

Plaintiff's first assignment of error is directed at the failure of the trial judge to define proximate cause in his charge to the jury. This is a valid assignment of error. Although the trial judge referred to proximate cause several times in the charge, nowhere in the charge do we find a proper definition of proximate cause. The closest that the court came to attempting a definition of proximate cause was when the court stated:

"Negligence...

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