Opinion · Supreme Court of North Carolina

Williams v. Smith

311 N.C. 769

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction
North Carolina
Date
1984-08-28
Topic
litigation

How later courts describe this case

  • affirming the trial court’s award of damages for unfair and deceptive trade practices by a vendor against a prospective purchaser when the vendor threatened the purchaser with loss of his deposit if the purchaser would not accept the financing scheme offered by the vendor
  • substantial evidence in record that sale of residential real estate was a business activity
  • “coercive tactics are within the definition of unfair practices”

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Cited by
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321 S.E.2d 158 (1984) 311 N.C. 769

Raleigh Leo WILLIAMS
v.
Kimberly SMITH and Keefer Raymond Ling, Jr.

No. 273P84.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 28, 1984.

Harris, Bumgardner & Carpenter, Gastonia, for plaintiff.

Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell & Hickman, Charlotte, for defendants.

*159 Plaintiff's petition for writ of certiorari to review the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Denied.