234 N.C. 399
67 S.E.2d 263
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided October 31, 1951
Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1951-10-31
Relies on Binder v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Conard v. . Shuford
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1951-10-31
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2017
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
View the full empirical analysis of this case →
¶1 Special damages, that is, damages which are the natural but not necessary result of the alleged wrongful act of the defendant, must be pleaded with sufficient particularity to put the defendant on notice. Conrad v. Shuford, 174 N.C. 719, 94 S.E. 424; Binder v. Ac ceptance Corp., 222 N.C. 512, 23 S.E. 2d 894. This the plaintiff has done. The allegations stricken are a proper and necessary part of his complaint. Hence the order striking same must be
¶2 Reversed.