Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1979

The Supreme Court of North Carolina reversed the Court of Appeals and reinstated the Industrial Commission's award of death benefits to the widow and four minor children of Robert Booker, a Duke Medical Center laboratory technician who died of serum hepatitis in 1974.

The Supreme Court of North Carolina affirmed dismissal of the wife's claim for $250,000 in consequential damages for mental anguish allegedly flowing from the husband's breach of a tax-deficiency indemnification agreement, announcing a three-part test: mental anguish damages are within the contemplation of the parties…