ROBERTS v. YOUNG

No. COA95-120.

464 S.E.2d 78 (1995)

120 N.C. App. 720

Nathan Wayne ROBERTS, Derald Wayne Roberts, and wife, Mary Jenene Roberts v. Ronald Charles YOUNG and Carolyn Nelson Tuggle.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

November 21, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Long & Parker, P.A. by Robert B. Long, Jr., and W. Scott Jones, Asheville, for plaintiff-appellee Nathan Wayne Roberts.

Van Winkle, Buck, Wall, Starnes & Davis, P.A. by Roy W. Davis, Jr., and Michelle Rippon, Asheville, for unnamed defendant-appellant, State Farm Automobile Insurance Company.


MARK D. MARTIN, Judge.

Unnamed defendant State Farm Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm) appeals from jury verdict alleging 10 assignments of error. We find no error.

State Farm contends the trial court erred by: (1) failing to bifurcate the damages issue; (2) admitting evidence relating to punitive damages; (3) allowing plaintiff, at the close of its evidence, to dismiss its claim for punitive damages; (4) instructing the jury on the effect of plaintiff...

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