# Jackson v. Housing Authority of High Point

> Court of Appeals of North Carolina · March 5, 1985 · 73 N.C. App. 363

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9583304

## Case

- **Full name:** LINDA JACKSON, Administratrix of the Estate of MARY MAGDALENE JACKSON v. THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF HIGH POINT
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of North Carolina
- **Decided:** March 5, 1985
- **Citations:** 73 N.C. App. 363; 326 S.E.2d 295; 1985 N.C. App. LEXIS 3274
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Webb
- **Judges:** Phillips, Johnson, Webb
- **Cited by:** 12 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that traditionally, municipal corporations have been exonerated from liability from punitive damages in personal injury cases for public policy reasons

## Opinion text

Judge Webb
dissenting.
I dissent from that part of the majority opinion which holds it was error to dismiss plaintiffs claim for punitive damages. I do not believe we have to decide whether punitive damages may be had in a wrongful death claim against a municipal corporation. We do not reach that question because there is not sufficient evidence for the jury to find maliciousness, wilfulness, wantonness or gross negligence. Without this evidence the question of punitive damages does not arise. I concur in the rest of the opinion.

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