ROGERS v. UNIVERSITY MOTOR INN

No. 9010IC956.

405 S.E.2d 770 (1991)

103 N.C. App. 456

Sheila A. ROGERS, Widow, Lewis Rogers, Father, & Katherine Rogers, Mother of Earl Rogers, Deceased Employee, Plaintiffs, v. UNIVERSITY MOTOR INN, Employer, and Great American Insurance Co., Carrier, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 16, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Bryan, III, Chapel Hill, for plaintiff-appellant, Sheila A. Rogers.

Charles T. L. Anderson, Chapel Hill, for plaintiffs-appellees, Lewis Rogers and Katherine Rogers.

Teague, Campbell, Dennis & Gorham by George W. Dennis, III and Kathryn G. Tate, Raleigh, for defendants-appellees.


LEWIS, Judge.

This appeal presents the Court with the primary issues of whether the Full Commission committed reversible error: 1) with regard to certain findings of facts, 2) in concluding that the appellant was not a "widow" of Earl Rogers, living apart from him for "justifiable cause," and 3) in ruling that the appellant's adulterous affair barred her from qualifying as a widow under N.C.G.S. §§ 97-2(14) and 97-39.

The appellant Sheila Rogers...

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