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SASSER v. BECK

No. 788SC589.

253 S.E.2d 577 (1979)

40 N.C. App. 668

James Graham SASSER, by his guardian ad litem, H. Bruce Hulse v. Sam BECK and wife, Mrs. Sam Beck, t/a the Princess Motel.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 17, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke & Brown, by John E. Duke, and Hulse & Hulse, by Herbert B. Hulse, Goldsboro, for plaintiff appellee.

Smith, Anderson, Blount & Mitchell, by Samuel G. Thompson, Raleigh, and Van Winkle, Buck, Wall, Starnes, Hyde & Davis, by Herbert L. Hyde, Asheville, for defendant appellant.

ARNOLD, Judge.

The question of first impression presented by this appeal is whether the courts of this State have jurisdiction over a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in a tort claim by a non-Indian arising from an occurrence on land within the Qualla Boundary.

The history of the Cherokee Indians is set out at length in Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians v. United States, 117 U.S. 288, 6 S.Ct. 718, 29 L.Ed...

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