RARITAN RIVER STEEL v. CHERRY, BEKAERT & HOLLAND

No. 123PA86.

367 S.E.2d 609 (1988)

RARITAN RIVER STEEL COMPANY v. CHERRY, BEKAERT & HOLLAND, a General Partnership et al. SIDBEC-DOSCO, INC. v. CHERRY, BEKAERT & HOLLAND, a General Partnership et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 5, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan by James G. Billings and Martha Jones Mason, Raleigh, for defendant-appellants.

Grier and Grier by Joseph W. Grier, III and Richard C. Belthoff, Jr., Charlotte, for plaintiff-appellee Raritan River Steel Company.

Golding, Crews, Meekins & Gordon by Rodney A. Dean and Andrew W. Lax, Charlotte, for plaintiff-appellee Sidbec-Dosco, Inc.

Smith, Helms, Mulliss & Moore, by McNeill Smith, Raleigh, amicus curiae.


EXUM, Chief Justice.

As the case comes before us it is an action against accountants for negligent misrepresentation. Plaintiffs, creditors of Intercontinental Metals Corporation ("IMC"), allege they incurred damages when they extended credit to IMC in reliance on incorrect information contained in an audit report on IMC's financial status prepared for IMC by defendants. Plaintiffs claim defendants were negligent in their preparation of the report.

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