WORD v. JONES EX REL. MOORE

No. 336PA98.

516 S.E.2d 144 (1999)

Willie Elaine Spivery WORD, Administrator CTA of the Estate of Bertha C. Spivery. v. Dorothy Galloway JONES, by and through her Guardian, Harriet B. MOORE.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 25, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A., by Adam Stein, Chapel Hill, for plaintiff-appellant and -appellee.

Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog, L.L.P., by Robert W. Sumner and Edward C. LeCarpentier III; and Law Offices of H. Spencer Barrow, by H. Spencer Barrow, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant and -appellee.


PARKER, Justice.

This negligence action arose out of an automobile accident that occurred on 14 October 1993. Plaintiff's testate, Bertha C. Spivery, was a passenger in the front seat of an automobile being driven by her daughter, Denise Holder, in a westerly direction on New Bern Avenue. Defendant Dorothy Galloway Jones was driving south on Trawick Road to the intersection of New Bern Avenue. At that point New Bern Avenue is a divided highway with two lanes for eastbound...

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