White v. Vananda

PARKER, Judge.

Plaintiff’s evidence that the collision occurred when defendant’s son drove left of the center of the highway made a prima facie case of actionable negligence on the son’s part, Lassiter v. Williams, 272 N.C. 473, 158 S.E. 2d 593; Anderson v. Webb, 267 N.C. 745, 148 S.E. 2d 846, and the only question presented by this appeal is whether the evidence was sufficient to require the jury to pass upon an issue as to defendant’s responsibility for his son’s actions. We think that it was.

Since the collision occurred in North Carolina, the family purpose doctrine as enunciated in this…