WILLIAMS v. HYATT CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH, INC.

No. 8010DC6.

269 S.E.2d 184 (1980)

48 N.C. App. 308

Tommy WILLIAMS v. HYATT CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH, INC., and Chrysler Corporation.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Akins, Mann & Pike, P.A. by J. Jerome Hartzell, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellant.

Corbett & Corbett by Albert A. Corbett, Jr., Smithfield, for defendant-appellee Hyatt Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.

Teague, Campbell, Conely & Dennis by George W. Dennis, III, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee Chrysler Corporation.


PARKER, Judge.

The trial court concluded as a matter of law that Chrysler could not be held liable to plaintiff on the grounds that there was no privity of contract between plaintiff and defendant manufacturer. In Kinlaw v. Long Mfg., 298 N.C. 494, 259 S.E.2d 552 (1979), our Supreme Court held that the absence of contractual privity no longer bars a direct claim by an ultimate purchaser against...

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