Opinion · Supreme Court of North Carolina
Dawes v. Nash County
357 N.C. 511
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of North Carolina
- Jurisdiction
- North Carolina
- Date
- 2003-09-09
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- Our Supreme Court found Nash County’s purchase of the GL section of a policy issued by the same Fund was a waiver of sovereign immunity, unless some specific exclusion applied.
- “[W]here an individual creates a corporation as a means of carrying out his business purposes he may not ignore the existence of the corporation in order to avoid its disadvantages.” (citations omitted)
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- Cited by
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587 S.E.2d 417 (2003) 357 N.C. 511
Angela DAWES, Administratrix of the Estate of Effie Hendricks
No. 117A02.
Angela DAWES, Administratrix of the Estate of Effie Hendricks
v.
NASH COUNTY and Nash County Emergency Medical Services, a Division of Nash County.
No. 117A02.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
September 9, 2003.R. Bailey Melvin, Greenville, for Dawes.
*418 Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., Mark A. Davis, Raleigh, for Nash County et al.
Prior report: 357 N.C. 442, 584 S.E.2d 760.
ORDER
Upon consideration of the petition filed by Defendants for rehearing of the decision of this Court pursuant to Rule 31, N.C. Rules of Appellate Procedure, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:
"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 9th day of September 2003."