9 N.C. App. 529 - Purgason v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “The trial court instructed the jury in pertinent part: “I instruct you that if you find that the plaintiff has satisfied you by the greater weight of the evidence that on and prior to June 6, 1976, Greyhound Lines, Incorporated, its officers, agents, or servants knew or the exercise of the highest degree of care for the safety of its passengers should have known, that a criminal assault on plaintiff or some other of its passengers in its ladies’ restroom at its Raleigh terminal was imminent and that it had or in the exercise of the highest degree of care for the safety of its passenbers [sic], should have had such knowledge long enough in advance of June 6, 1976, to have prevented the assault on plaintiff with the manpower and physical resources at hand; And further that Greyhound Lines, Incorporated, failed and neglected to exercise the highest degree of care for the safety of plaintiff in [his] Raleigh terminal on June 6,1976 as far as was consistent with the practical operation of its business and that such failure and neglect proximately resulted in the June 6,1976 criminal assault on plaintiff, you will answer the first issue yes in favor of the plaintiff.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 47 N.C. App. 680 - Wesley v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.

2. ““the wrongful act does not cause a diseased condition but only aggravates and increases the severity of a condition existing at the time of the injury, the injured person may recover only for such increased or augumented sufferings as are the natural and proximate result of the wrongful act, or, as otherwise stated, where a pre-existing disease is aggravated . . . the . . . recovery ... is limited to the additional injury caused by the aggravation over and above the consequences, which the pre-existing disease, running its normal course, would itself have caused if there had been no aggravation by the wrongful injury.” Potts v. Howser, 274 N.C. 49, 54 , 161 S.E. 2d 737 (1968), quoting 25 C.J.S., Damages, § 21, p. 661.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 22 N.C. App. 741 - Howell v. Nichols