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BRIDGES v. UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.

No. 8522SC910.

341 S.E.2d 616 (1986)

Dorothy P. BRIDGES, Executrix of the Estate of Parks W. Bridges, Plaintiff, v. UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. and Andy Gene Strickland, Defendants, v. Timothy D. BRIDGES, Third Party Claimant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 15, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kluttz, Hamlin, Reamer, Blankenship & Kluttz by Richard R. Reamer, and Jordan, Brown, Price & Wall by R. Frank Gray, Raleigh, for defendants-appellants.

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice by Robert H. Sasser, III, Winston-Salem, for third-party claimant-appellee Timothy D. Bridges.

PHILLIPS, Judge.

This wrongful death action for both compensatory and punitive damages arose out of a collision between a tractor trailer operated by the defendant Strickland for the corporate defendant and an automobile in which Parks W. Bridges was a passenger. In answering the complaint defendants denied that they were negligent and pled the defense of sudden emergency. Later, defendants filed a third party claim for contribution against the driver of the car,...

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