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  "id": 8551895,
  "name": "THOMAS WARREN HALL v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and DAN THOMAS PONTIAC, INC.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Hall v. General Motors Corp.",
  "decision_date": "1976-10-15",
  "docket_number": "No. 7519SC482",
  "first_page": "202",
  "last_page": "205",
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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": [
      "THOMAS WARREN HALL v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and DAN THOMAS PONTIAC, INC."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "BRITT, Judge.\nPlaintiff contends that Judge Crissman\u2019s order filed 7 May 1974 denied defendant\u2019s motion that a fee for the commissioner and the reporter\u2019s charges for taking depositions be taxed as a part of the costs against plaintiff, therefore, the clerk\u2019s order and Judge Rousseau\u2019s order thereafter entered are void. We find no merit in the contention.\nAlthough a motion by defendants concerning the commissioner\u2019s fee and reporter\u2019s charges had been filed, and notice given that the motion would be heard before Judge Crissman on 6 May 1974, defendants\u2019 motion concerning impoundment of the carburetor assembly had also been filed and notice given that that motion would be heard before Judge Crissman on 6 May 1974. Judge Crissman\u2019s order is clear that he was ruling only on the written and oral motions to impound the carburetor. That being true, it was not improper for the clerk and Judge Rousseau to pass upon the question presented by the other motion.\nThe order appealed from is\nAffirmed.\nJudges Parker and Clark concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "BRITT, Judge."
      }
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    "attorneys": [
      "Ottway Burton and Millicent Gibson for plaintiff appellant.",
      "Miller, Beck, O\u2019Briant & Glass, by Adam W. Beck, for defendant appellee Dan Thomas Pontiac, Inc.",
      "Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter, by J. Donald Cowan, Jr., for defendant appellee General Motors Corporation."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "THOMAS WARREN HALL v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and DAN THOMAS PONTIAC, INC.\nNo. 7519SC482\n(Filed 15 October 1976)\nCourts \u00a7 9; Costs \u00a7 3\u2014 compensation for commissioner and court reporter\u2014 order by clerk and superior court\nAlthough a motion concerning compensation for a commissioner appointed by the court to take depositions and for the court reporter had been filed and notice had been given that the motion would be heard on the same date as defendants\u2019 motion for impoundment of a carburetor, the judge\u2019s order makes it clear that he ruled only on the motion for impoundment of the carburetor, and the clerk, and the superior court on appeal, thereafter had authority to enter an order awarding a commissioner\u2019s fee and compensation for the court reporter and taxing half of said amounts as part of the costs to be paid by plaintiff.\nAppeal by plaintiff from Rousseau, Judge. Judgment entered 7 March 1975 in Superior Court, Randolph County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 24 September 1975.\nThis is a civil action instituted to recover for property damage and personal injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff when his Pontiac automobile wrecked as the result of a defective cam and throttle. The action was commenced on 22 December 1972 and proceedings pertinent to this appeal are summarized as follows:\nAfter complaint and answers were filed, discovery proceedings followed. On 9 April 1974, plaintiff, through his counsel, filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice pursuant to Rule 41(a)(1). On 23 April 1974, defendants filed motion setting forth that the case was scheduled for trial on 9 April 1974; that when the case was called for trial plaintiff filed a notice of dismissal; that on 11 May 1973, a commissioner was appointed by the court for purpose of taking depositions; that depositions were taken but no order providing for compensation for the commissioner and the court reporter had been entered; defendants asked that a fee be set for the commissioner and that one-half of the fee and one-half of the reporter\u2019s charges be taxed as a part of the costs against plaintiff..\nOn 2 May 1974, defendants filed a motion asking for an order impounding the carburetor assembly on the automobile in question to the end that said assembly would be available in the trial of any subsequent action that plaintiff might institute. Defendants served notices on plaintiff\u2019s counsel that they would ask for a hearing on both motions on 6 May 1974 at 10:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel could be heard.\nOn 7 May 1974, an order (dated 6 May 1974) was entered by Judge Crissman providing as follows:\n\u201cThis cause coming on to be heard on defendants\u2019 written motion heretofore filed and oral motion to impound the carburetor on the Pontiac automobile and after argument of counsel for defendants and argument of counsel for plaintiff, the Court is of the opinion that both motions should be denied.\n\u201cIt is, Therefore, Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that the defendants\u2019 motions and .both of them are hereby denied.\u201d\nOn 7 May 1974, defendants filed another motion concerning taxing of costs for the commissioner\u2019s fee and reporter\u2019s charges and served notice on plaintiff\u2019s counsel that a hearing on that motion would be held before the clerk of the superior court on 20 May 1974 at 4:00 p.m. On 24 May 1974, the clerk entered an order making certain findings, awarding the commissioner a fee of $200, adjudging the reporter\u2019s charges to be $302, and ordering that half of said amounts be taxed as a part of the costs against plaintiff. Plaintiff appealed from the clerk\u2019s order.\nOn 10 March 1975, following a hearing, Judge Rousseau entered an order making findings of fact, awarding the commissioner a fee of $200, adjudging the reporter\u2019s charges to be $302, and ordering that half of said amounts be taxed as a part of the costs against plaintiff.\nPlaintiff appealed to the Court of Appeals.\nOttway Burton and Millicent Gibson for plaintiff appellant.\nMiller, Beck, O\u2019Briant & Glass, by Adam W. Beck, for defendant appellee Dan Thomas Pontiac, Inc.\nSmith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter, by J. Donald Cowan, Jr., for defendant appellee General Motors Corporation."
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  "file_name": "0202-01",
  "first_page_order": 230,
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