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  "id": 8633544,
  "name": "BELL SHOE STORES, INC., v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bell Shoe Stores, Inc. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance",
  "decision_date": "1939-01-04",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "848",
  "last_page": "849",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "214 N.C. 848"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T22:38:13.292364+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "BELL SHOE STORES, INC., v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThe action is one arising out of a written lease and a dispute between the parties as to the exact cause of the damage to plaintiff\u2019s stock of goods following a heavy rain on the night of 19 June, 1936. The jury has resolved the disputed matters of fact in favor of the plaintiff. \"We have discovered no ruling or action on the part of the trial court which we apprehend should be held for reversible error. The evidence was sufficient to carry the case to the jury. The verdict and judgment will be upheld.\nNo error.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Frazier & Frazier for plaintiff, appellee.",
      "Brooks, McLendon & Ilolderness for defendant, appellant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "BELL SHOE STORES, INC., v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n(Filed 4 January, 1939.)\nAppeal by defendant from Phillips, J., at August Term, 1938, of Guilford.\nCivil action by lessee to recover of lessor for damage to stock of goods \u201cdue to the negligence of the lessor\u201d ... or to \u201cthe failure on the part of the lessor to keep the roof and other parts of the building in proper repair,\u201d as provided in written lease.\nUpon denial of liability and issues joined, there was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appeals, assigning errors.\nFrazier & Frazier for plaintiff, appellee.\nBrooks, McLendon & Ilolderness for defendant, appellant."
  },
  "file_name": "0848-02",
  "first_page_order": 916,
  "last_page_order": 917
}