GOLDSTON v. AMERICAN MOTORS CORP.

No. 487PA89.

392 S.E.2d 735 (1990)

326 N.C. 723

Raychell GOLDSTON v. AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION, American Motors Sales Corporation, American Motors (Canada), Inc., and Leith of New Bern, Inc., d/b/a East Carolina Honda-Volvo.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Mauney and Charles Darsie Durham, for plaintiff-appellant.

Yates, Fleishman, McLamb & Weyher by Joseph W. Yates, III, Raleigh, for defendant-appellees.


MARTIN, Justice.

Our decision does not require an extensive recital of the facts. In brief, on 7 February 1982 the plaintiff, an East Carolina University coed, was rendered a quadriplegic when the 1979 Jeep CJ-7 Golden Eagle in which she was riding flipped over on the sand dunes of Radio Island. She filed suit on 18 May 1984 against American Motors Corporation ("AMC"), and two of its subsidiaries, American Motors Sales Corporation and American Motors (Canada), Inc...

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