Case ID: nc_249/html/0133-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CARL F. SPAUGH, JR., and wife, BETTY JO SPAUGH v. CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM.
    (Filed 29 October, 1958.)
    Appeal by plaintiffs from Sharp, S. J., at June 16, 1958, Civil Term of Forsyth.
    Civil action to recover for damage to home place of plaintiffs by reason of alleged pollution of air from the city’s disposal plant.
    Defendant, answering complaint of plaintiffs, denies liability and pleads statute of limitations.
    Upon trial in Superior Court, on evidence offered by the respective parties, the case was submitted to the jury upon these issues, the first two of which the jury answered as indicated:
    “1. Is the plaintiffs’ cause of action barred by the 3-year statute of limitations, as alleged in the answer? Answer: Yes, except from June 19, 1954.
    “2. Has the defendant damaged the home of the plaintiff by operation and maintenance of its sewer system? Answer: No.
    “3. What amount, if any, is the defendant indebted to the plaintiffs because of temporary damages to plaintiffs’ home from June 19, 1954 through June 19, 1958? Answer .”
    And, pursuant to the verdict so rendered, the trial court entered judgment that plaintiffs recover nothing of the defendant and that plaintiffs be taxed with the costs. Plaintiffs except thereto and appeal to Supreme Court, and assign error.
    
      Deal, Hutchins & Minor for plaintiff, appellants.
    
    
      Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Henry G. Barnhill, Jr., for defendant, appellee.
    
   Per Curiam.

The assignments of error brought up on this appeal relate only to the exclusion of testimony of male plaintiff, and of his father pertaining to matters not relevant and material to the issues raised by the pleadings. In them prejudicial error is not made to appear. Hence in the judgment below there is

No Error.

Parker, J., not sitting.