State Supreme Court / N.C.

Sale v. State Highway & Public Works Commission

Decided September 28, 1955. Robert Hunt Parker wrote the opinion for the court.

89 S.E.2d 290 · Cited 59 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Angelle v. State · 34 So. 2d 321
Milhous v. State Highway Department · 8 S.E.2d 852
Sanders v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · 4 S.E.2d 902
People Ex Rel. Wanless v. City of Chicago · 38 N.E.2d 743
Sale v. State Highway & Public Works Commission · 78 S.E.2d 724
Tomasek v. Oregon State Highway Commission · 248 P.2d 703
Eason v. Spence · 61 S.E.2d 717
Roe v. County of Cook · 193 N.E. 472
Schmutte v. State · 147 Neb. 193
Barber v. Wooten · 66 S.E.2d 690
Woody v. Barnett · 68 S.E.2d 810
Pasquotank & North River Steamboat Co. v. Eastern Carolina Transportation Co. · 82 S.E. 956
Brown v. Bowers Construction Co. · 73 S.E.2d 147
People Ex Rel. Markgraff v. Rosenfield · 50 N.E.2d 479
Cherry v. Andrews · 56 S.E.2d 703
Town of Mount Olive v. Cowan · 69 S.E.2d 525
Howle v. Twin States Express, Inc. · 238 N.C. 676
Rose v. State of California · 19 Cal. 2d 713
Johnston v. . Rankin · 70 N.C. 550
Proctor v. Highway Commission · 55 S.E.2d 479
Eller v. Board of Education of Buncombe County · 89 S.E.2d 144
State Highway Commission v. Mason · 4 So. 2d 345

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Doe v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · 222 N.C. App. 359
Guilford Realty & Insurance Co. v. Blythe Bros. Co. · 131 S.E.2d 900
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. State Highway Commission · 150 S.E.2d 70
Finch v. City of Durham · 384 S.E.2d 8
Tully v. City of Wilmington · 810 S.E.2d 208
Department of Transportation v. M.M. Fowler, Inc. · 637 S.E.2d 885
Sechrest v. Forest Furniture Company · 141 S.E.2d 292
Blount-Midyette & Co. v. Aeroglide Corporation · 119 S.E.2d 225
Poor v. Hill · 530 S.E.2d 838
Barnes v. North Carolina State Highway Commission · 109 S.E.2d 219
Long v. City of Charlotte · 293 S.E.2d 101
Darnall v. State · 108 N.W.2d 201
Midgett v. North Carolina State Highway Commission · 132 S.E.2d 599
Carolina Beach Fishing Pier, Inc. v. Town of Carolina Beach · 163 S.E.2d 363
Gregory Baldwin v. City of Estherville, Iowa Matt Reineke, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Estherville Police Department and Matt Hellickson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Estherville Police Department · 915 N.W.2d 259
City of Charlotte v. Spratt · 140 S.E.2d 341
Williams v. State Highway Commission · 113 S.E.2d 263
DeBruhl v. State Highway & Public Works Commission · 102 S.E.2d 229
LA Reynolds Company v. State Highway Commission · 155 S.E.2d 473
Sturgeon v. Phifer · 390 P.2d 727
Williams v. North Carolina State Highway Commission · 114 S.E.2d 782
State Highway Commission v. LA REYNOLDS COMPANY · 159 S.E.2d 198

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