LEDWELL v. BERRY

No. 7718SC976.

249 S.E.2d 862 (1978)

39 N.C. App. 224

Phyllis Harper LEDWELL, and American Motorists Insurance Company v. Phillip Bernard BERRY, by his Guardian ad litem Robert A. Brinson.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 19, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tuggle, Duggins, Meschan, Thornton & Elrod, P. A., by Joseph E. Elrod, III and Kenneth R. Keller, Greensboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Tate & Bretzmann by Raymond A. Bretzmann, High Point, for defendant-appellee.


WEBB, Judge.

We hold that Judge Lupton was correct and affirm the judgment.

The plaintiff challenges the statute on the ground that it creates an arbitrary classification to which the doctrine of parent-child immunity does not apply and thus violates the equal protection clauses of the North Carolina Constitution, art. 1, § 19, and the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

The police power of the state is an inherent power of...

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