MEDLIN v. BASS

No. 7A90.

398 S.E.2d 460 (1990)

327 N.C. 587

Gail West MEDLIN, Guardian Ad Litem for Pamela Lynn Medlin v. Vann J. BASS, Individually and as agent for Franklin County Board of Education; Luther Baldwin, Individually and as agent for Franklin County Board of Education; Warren W. Smith, Franklin County Board of Education; Russell E. Allen, Individually and as Agent for Franklin County Board of Education; Franklin County Board of Education, Defendants.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Wilson Parker, Winston-Salem, and Kirk, Gay, Kirk, Gwynn & Howell by Andy W. Gay, and Katherine M. McCraw, Wendell, for plaintiff-appellant.

Patterson, Dilthey, Clay, Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog by David H. Batten, Raleigh, Davis, Sturges & Tomlinson by Charles M. Davis, Louisburg, for defendant-appellee Franklin County Bd. of Educ.

Young, Moore, Henderson & Alvis by David P. Sousa, Theodore S. Danchi, and Knox Proctor, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee Warren W. Smith.

J. Wilson Parker, Winston-Salem, for the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae.

William G. Simpson, Jr., Raleigh, Charles M. Putterman, Raleigh, for the North Carolina Civ. Liberties Union Legal Foundation, amicus curiae.

Katherine Holliday, Charlotte, for the Children's Law Center, amicus curiae.


WHICHARD, Justice.

Plaintiff, as guardian ad litem for her minor daughter, sought to recover from defendants compensatory and punitive damages allegedly sustained as the result of sexual assaults upon the minor plaintiff by defendant Vann J. Bass, principal of the school which the minor plaintiff attended. She alleged that on one occasion defendant Bass sexually assaulted the minor plaintiff by committing lewd and lascivious acts and taking immoral, improper and indecent...

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