HATCHER v. FLOCKHART FOODS, INC.

No. COA02-1400.

589 S.E.2d 140 (2003)

Walter HATCHER, Jr., Plaintiff v. FLOCKHART FOODS, INC., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 16, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thompson & Mikitka, P.C., by E.C. Thompson, III and Susan Collins Mikitka, Warsaw, for plaintiff-appellant.

Patterson, Dilthey, Clay & Bryson, L.L.P., by Christopher M. Hinnant, Wilmington, for defendant-appellee.


HUNTER, Judge.

Walter Hatcher, Jr. ("plaintiff") appeals from a grant of summary judgment in favor of Flockhart Foods, Inc. ("Flockhart") and the subsequent dismissal of his complaint against Flockhart as being barred by the statute of limitations. For the reasons stated herein, we reverse.

On 10 July 1997, plaintiff sustained several injuries when he slipped and fell on a slick substance in a Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Wallace, North Carolina ("the Store...

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