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  "name": "HILLIARD GREEN v. THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, A Corporation, and IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, A North Carolina Corporation in process of dissolution",
  "name_abbreviation": "Green v. Western & Southern Life Insurance",
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    "judges": [
      "Higgins, J., not sitting."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "HILLIARD GREEN v. THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, A Corporation, and IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, A North Carolina Corporation in process of dissolution."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nG.S. 1-169.1, in respect to Pre-Trial Hearings, reads in part: \u201cFollowing the hearing the presiding judige shall enter an order reciting the stipulations made and the action taken. Such order shall control the subsequent course of the case unless in the discretion of the trial judge the ends of justice require its modification.\u201d\nJudge Pless\u2019 pre-trial order is interlocutory, from which an appeal does not lie. The appeal is dismissed, but without prejudice to plaintiff\u2019s exception to the order, and to his rights in accordance with procedure and law in such oases. DeBruhl v. Highway Com., 241 N.C. 616, 86 S.E. 2d 200.\nAppeal Dismissed.\nHiggins, J., not sitting.",
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        "author": "Per Curiam."
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    "attorneys": [
      "William J. Cocke for plaintiff, appellant.",
      "Uzzell & DuMont By: William B. Greene for defendants, appellees."
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    "head_matter": "HILLIARD GREEN v. THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, A Corporation, and IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, A North Carolina Corporation in process of dissolution.\n(Filed 23 September, 1959.)\n1. Appeal and Error \u00a7 3: Trial \u00a7 5% \u2014\nAppeal from a provision of a pretrial order fixing tbe issue and the rule for the admeasurement of damages is premature and will be dismissed, since the trial judge has the discretionary power to modify same. G.S. 1-169.1.\nHiggins, J., not sitting.\nAppeal by plaintiff from Pless, J., June 1959 regular civil term. BunCOMbe.\nCivil action to recover damages for an alleged unlawf\u00fal and tor-tious liquidation and dissolution of the Imperial Life Insurance Company, over the dissent of plaintiff, a minority stockholder.\nAt a pre-trial hearing (G.S. 1-169.1) the court entered an order that one issue should be submitted to the jury: \u201cWhat amount of damage is the plaintiff entitled to recover of the defendant?\u201d In the pre-trial order the court went further, and held what the rule of damages would be and the maximum' possible recovery, and gave an explanation for its holding. The last sentence of the pre-trial order reads: \u201cThis statement is for the information of the trial judge, and is not intended to constitute a ruling.\u201d\nPlaintiff excepted to the pre-trial order, and appealed to the Supreme Court.\nWilliam J. Cocke for plaintiff, appellant.\nUzzell & DuMont By: William B. Greene for defendants, appellees."
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  "file_name": "0730-01",
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