HOUSTON v. RIVENS

No. 7426DC453.

206 S.E.2d 739 (1974)

22 N.C. App. 423

Ophelia W. HOUSTON and Harold Houston v. Thomas Monroe RIVENS.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 17, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Lanning by Fred A. Hicks, Charlotte, for plaintiff appellants.

Sanders, Walker & London by Robert G. McClure, Jr., Charlotte, for defendant appellee.


MORRIS, Judge.

Plaintiffs have brought forward multiple exceptions to the court's instructions to the jury. While we agree that portions of the instructions are erroneous in themselves, we do not feel that they are sufficiently prejudicial to warrant a new trial, when viewed contextually with the charge as a whole.

In their first assignment of error, plaintiffs contend that the court failed to explain the law as it applied to the facts of the case and failed...

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