Court of Appeals of North Carolina June 4, 1985, 8429SC1039 (Laughter v. Southern Pump & Tank Co.)

WHICHARD, Judge.

This action arises out of an accident involving a fire truck which occurred on Terry’s Gap Road in Henderson County. On 3 November 1978 plaintiff, a volunteer fireman, responded to a fire

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alarm in the department’s truck, a 1972 or 1973 model Chevrolet on the chassis of which was welded a 2,000 gallon water tank. Defendant sold and mounted the tank.