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  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ON RELATION OF GEORGE JOHNNIE WILLIAMS, JR., Administrator of GEORGE JOHNNIE WILLIAMS, Deceased v. W. I. ADAMS, L. R. COBB, GEORGE PEELE, C. BOLTINHOUSE and FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, INC.",
  "name_abbreviation": "State ex rel. Williams v. Adams",
  "decision_date": "1975-04-16",
  "docket_number": "No. 758SC118",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
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    "judges": [
      "Judges Parker and Clark concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ON RELATION OF GEORGE JOHNNIE WILLIAMS, JR., Administrator of GEORGE JOHNNIE WILLIAMS, Deceased v. W. I. ADAMS, L. R. COBB, GEORGE PEELE, C. BOLTINHOUSE and FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, INC."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "VAUGHN, Judge.\nThe complaint alleges tortious neglect of plaintiff\u2019s' intestate while he was in jail in defendant Sheriff\u2019s custody.\nG.S. 1-54(1) requires that actions against a public officer for a trespass under color of his office be started within one year after the cause of action accrues.\nA sheriff is a public officer and negligence in the performance of his duties as custodian of one confined in the county jail is a trespass under color of his office. It appears on the face of the complaint that this suit was started more than one year after the cause of action accrued. It was, therefore, proper to grant defendants\u2019 motion for judgment on the pleading because the claim was barred by G.S. 1-54(1), the applicable statute of limitation.\nAffirmed.\nJudges Parker and Clark concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "VAUGHN, Judge."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Turner and Harrison, by Fred W. Harrison, for plaintiff appellant.",
      "Smith, Anderson, Blount & Mitchell, by John H. Anderson, for defendant appellees."
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ON RELATION OF GEORGE JOHNNIE WILLIAMS, JR., Administrator of GEORGE JOHNNIE WILLIAMS, Deceased v. W. I. ADAMS, L. R. COBB, GEORGE PEELE, C. BOLTINHOUSE and FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, INC.\nNo. 758SC118\n(Filed 16 April 1975)\nPublic Officers \u00a7 9; Sheriff and Constables\u2014 neglect of prisoner by sheriff \u2014 statute of limitations\nAn action against a sheriff for neglect of plaintiff\u2019s intestate while he was in jail in the sheriff\u2019s custody is an action against a public officer for a trespass under color of his office and must be instituted within one year after the cause of action accrues. G.S. 1-54(1).\nAppeal by plaintiff from Snepp, Judge. Judgment entered 18 November 1974 in Superior Court, Wayne County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 11 April 1975.\nTurner and Harrison, by Fred W. Harrison, for plaintiff appellant.\nSmith, Anderson, Blount & Mitchell, by John H. Anderson, for defendant appellees."
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