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NELSON v. FREELAND

No. 216A98.

507 S.E.2d 882 (1998)

John Harvey NELSON v. Daryl Dean C. FREELAND and Belinda Brittain Freeland.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 31, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maddox & Gorham, P.A. by E. Thomas Maddox, Jr.; and Harrison, North, Cooke & Landreth by A. Wayland Cooke, Greensboro, for plaintiff-appellant.

Burton & Sue, L.L.P. by Walter K. Burton, David K. Williams, Jr., and James D. Secor, III, Greensboro, for defendant-appellees.

WYNN, Justice.

The sole issue arising out of the case sub judice is whether defendant Dean Freeland's ("Freeland") act of leaving a stick on his porch constituted negligence. Indeed, this case presents us with the simplest of factual scenarios—Freeland requested that plaintiff John Harvey Nelson ("Nelson") pick him up at his house for a business meeting the two were attending, and Nelson, while doing so, tripped over a stick that Freeland

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