N.C. BAPTIST HOSPITALS, INC. v. MITCHELL

No. 8721DC539.

362 S.E.2d 841 (1987)

NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITALS, INC. v. Beverly R. MITCHELL.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 22, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Turner, Enochs, Sparrow, Boone & Falk by Wendell H. Ott and Thomas E. Cone, Greensboro, for plaintiff-appellant.

Henson, Henson, Bayliss & Coates by Paul D. Coates and Perry C. Henson, Greensboro, for defendant-appellee.


ARNOLD, Judge.

It has long been the rule that a purported assignment of rights arising out of a cause of action for personal injury is invalid as contrary to public policy. Southern Railway Co. v. O'Boyle Tank Lines, 70 N.C. App. 1, 318 S.E.2d 872 (1984). The specific question involved here is whether there is a difference between the assignment of a claim and the assignment of...

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