LABARRE v. DUKE UNIVERSITY

No. 8914SC1044.

393 S.E.2d 321 (1990)

99 N.C. App. 563

Eleanor Kay LABARRE, Plaintiff, v. DUKE UNIVERSITY and Private Diagnostic Clinic, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 17, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grover C. McCain, Jr., and Ada F. Most, Chapel Hill, for plaintiff, appellant.

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice by Charles F. Vance, Jr., Guy F. Driver, Jr., and David A. Shirlen, Winston-Salem, for defendant, appellee Duke University.

Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan by Samuel G. Thompson, and William H. Moss, Raleigh, for defendant, appellee Private Diagnostic Clinic.


HEDRICK, Chief Judge.

In her only assignment of error, plaintiff contends the trial court erred by allowing defendants' summary judgment motions with respect to her claims for breach of contract and for negligence. She argues that genuine issues of material fact exist, and defendants were therefore not entitled to judgment as a matter of law. We disagree.

A. BREACH OF CONTRACT

Summary judgment is a drastic remedy which should be used with caution...

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