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  "name": "E. F. BLANKENSHIP COMPANY v. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, WILLIAM R. ROBERSON, JR., SECRETARY, OF THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, and NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATOR, BILLY ROSE",
  "name_abbreviation": "E. F. Blankenship Co. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation",
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  "docket_number": "No. 205A86",
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    "judges": [
      "Justice WEBB did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "E. F. BLANKENSHIP COMPANY v. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, WILLIAM R. ROBERSON, JR., SECRETARY, OF THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, and NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATOR, BILLY ROSE"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nThe Court is evenly divided. Under these circumstances, following the uniform practice of this Court and the ancient rule of praesumitur pro negante, the decision of the Court of Appeals is affirmed, not as precedent but as the decision in this case.\nAffirmed.\nJustice WEBB did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.",
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      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Blanchard, Tucker, Twiggs & Abrams, P.A., by Charles F. Blanchard and Donald R. Strickland, for plaintiff-appellant.",
      "Lacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by Evelyn M. Coman, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant-appellees."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "E. F. BLANKENSHIP COMPANY v. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, WILLIAM R. ROBERSON, JR., SECRETARY, OF THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, and NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATOR, BILLY ROSE\nNo. 205A86\n(Filed 6 January 1987)\nAppeal and Error 8 64\u2014 evenly divided Court \u2014 decision affirmed without becoming precedent\nWhere one member of the Supreme Court did not participate in the consideration or decision of the case and the remaining six justices are equally divided, the decision of the Court of Appeals is affirmed without becoming a precedent.\nJustice Webb did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.\nAppeal by plaintiff pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, reported in 79 N.C. App. 462, 339 S.E. 2d 439 (1986), which affirmed the dismissal of plaintiffs action by Bailey, J., at the 25 February 1985 session of Superior Court, Wake County. Heard in the Supreme Court 11 December 1986.\nBlanchard, Tucker, Twiggs & Abrams, P.A., by Charles F. Blanchard and Donald R. Strickland, for plaintiff-appellant.\nLacy H. Thornburg, Attorney General, by Evelyn M. Coman, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant-appellees."
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