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Home Electric Co. v. Hall & Underdown Heating & Air Conditioning Co.

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Apr 1, 1988
322 N.C. 107 (N.C. 1988)

Summary

rejecting Campbell v. Virginia Metal Industries, 708 F.2d 930 (4th Cir. 1983)

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Opinion

No. 487PA87

Filed 6 April 1988

ON plaintiff's petition for discretionary review of a decision of the Court of Appeals, 86 N.C. App. 540, 358 S.E.2d 539 (1987), which affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff's complaint by Sitton, J., at the 29 September 1986 session of Superior Court. CALDWELL County. Heard in the Supreme Court 15 March 1988.

Delk, Swanson Einstein, by Joseph C. Delk, III, David A. Swanson, and Edwin S. Hartshorn, III, for plaintiff-appellant.

Whisnant, Simmons, Groome, Tuttle Pike, by H. Houston Groome, Jr. and Vanessa Barlow, for defendant-appellee.

Miller, Johnston, Taylor Allison, by James W. Allison and John B. Taylor, for The Associated General Contractors of America, Carolinas Branch, amicus curiae.

Foster, Conner, Robson Gumbiner, P.A., by Eric C. Rowe, Allen Holt Gwyn, and Richard D. Conner, for American Subcontractors Association of The Carolinas, Inc., amicus curiae.


Affirmed.


Summaries of

Home Electric Co. v. Hall & Underdown Heating & Air Conditioning Co.

Supreme Court of North Carolina
Apr 1, 1988
322 N.C. 107 (N.C. 1988)

rejecting Campbell v. Virginia Metal Industries, 708 F.2d 930 (4th Cir. 1983)

Summary of this case from Rice v. Vitalink Pharmacy Services, Inc.
Case details for

Home Electric Co. v. Hall & Underdown Heating & Air Conditioning Co.

Case Details

Full title:HOME ELECTRIC CO. OF LENOIR, INC., A NORTH CAROLINA CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF…

Court:Supreme Court of North Carolina

Date published: Apr 1, 1988

Citations

322 N.C. 107 (N.C. 1988)
366 S.E.2d 441

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