ESTATE OF MULLIS BY DIXON v. MONROE OIL

No. 426PA97.

505 S.E.2d 131 (1998)

349 N.C. 196

ESTATE OF Jacqueline Melissa MULLIS, by Kathy DIXON, Administrator v. MONROE OIL COMPANY, INCORPORATED, City of Monroe Alcoholic Beverage Control, Liston S. Darby, Administrator of the Estate of Dwaine Lydell Darby, and the Estate of Otis Stephen Blount.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clark, Griffin & McCollum by Joe P. McCollum, Jr., and William L. McGuirt, Monroe, for plaintiff-appellant.

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C. by Timothy G. Barber and Steven D. Gardner, Charlotte, for defendant-appellee Monroe Oil Company.

R. Gregory Lewis, Anna L. Baird, Charlotte, and Joseph E. Wall, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee Monroe ABC.


ORR, Justice.

This case arises out of a drunk-driving accident in which four young people were tragically killed. On 30 April 1993, the four persons involved, Otis Blount, twenty; Dwaine Darby, nineteen; Melissa Mullis, fifteen; and Patricia Teel, eighteen, decided to meet several other individuals at a local teen nightclub in Monroe between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. Before meeting at the Monroe club, Blount bought some liquor for himself and two other individuals from a...

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